@prestack/thread 0.0.3 → 0.1.0

package/dist/core/rows.ts

@@ -252,6 +252,64 @@ function stated(node: ts.ObjectLiteralExpression, field: string): Bounds | undef
 
 export const quoted = (one: string): string => `'${one.replace(/\\/g, '\\\\').replace(/'/g, "\\'").replace(/\n/g, '\\n')}'`
 
+const UNREAD = Symbol.for('thread.unread')
+
+function valued(node: ts.Expression): unknown {
+  if (ts.isStringLiteral(node) || ts.isNoSubstitutionTemplateLiteral(node)) return node.text
+  if (ts.isNumericLiteral(node)) return Number(node.text)
+  if (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.TrueKeyword) return true
+  if (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.FalseKeyword) return false
+  if (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.NullKeyword) return null
+  if (ts.isAsExpression(node) || ts.isSatisfiesExpression(node) || ts.isParenthesizedExpression(node)) return valued(node.expression)
+  if (ts.isPrefixUnaryExpression(node) && node.operator === ts.SyntaxKind.MinusToken) {
+    const held = valued(node.operand)
+    return typeof held === 'number' ? -held : UNREAD
+  }
+  if (ts.isArrayLiteralExpression(node)) {
+    const held: unknown[] = []
+    for (const one of node.elements) {
+      const each = valued(one)
+      if (each === UNREAD) return UNREAD
+      held.push(each)
+    }
+    return held
+  }
+  if (ts.isObjectLiteralExpression(node)) {
+    const held: Record<string, unknown> = {}
+    for (const one of node.properties) {
+      if (!ts.isPropertyAssignment(one)) return UNREAD
+      const key = keyed(one)
+      if (key === undefined) return UNREAD
+      const each = valued(one.initializer)
+      if (each === UNREAD) return UNREAD
+      held[key] = each
+    }
+    return held
+  }
+  return UNREAD
+}
+
+function taken(text: string): readonly (readonly [string, unknown])[] {
+  const found: (readonly [string, unknown])[] = []
+  walk(tree(text), (node) => {
+    if (!ts.isVariableDeclaration(node) || node.initializer === undefined || !ts.isIdentifier(node.name)) return
+    found.push([node.name.text, valued(node.initializer)])
+  })
+  return found
+}
+
+export function valuesIn(text: string): Readonly<Record<string, unknown>> {
+  const found: Record<string, unknown> = {}
+  for (const [name, held] of taken(text)) {
+    if (held !== UNREAD) found[name] = held
+  }
+  return found
+}
+
+export function unread(text: string): readonly string[] {
+  return taken(text).filter(([, held]) => held === UNREAD).map(([name]) => name)
+}
+
 export const STATED = ['at', 'describes', 'version']
 
 export function reconciled(held: string, source: string, fields: readonly string[]): string {

package/dist/core/tree.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { existsSync, readdirSync, statSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { existsSync, readdirSync, statSync } from "./files.js";
 import { dirname, join, relative, resolve } from 'node:path';
 import { cwd } from 'node:process';
 const NAMES = ['_threads', 'threads'];

package/dist/core/tree.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { existsSync, readdirSync, statSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { existsSync, readdirSync, statSync } from './files.ts'
 import { dirname, join, relative, resolve } from 'node:path'
 import { cwd } from 'node:process'
 

package/dist/derivation/attach.js

@@ -39,18 +39,6 @@ const SHIPPED = [
         id: 'release-generator',
         source: "  {\n    id: 'release-generator',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/derivation/generators/release.js',\n    describes: 'The writer of what a host reads to run this app — it derives the config from what the app already declares, its own build and start commands and the names of every secret it says it must be given, and refuses to write while this app installs a package of this framework as a dependency, because what a host runs may hold nothing of the scaffolding that assembled it.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread release',\n    runs: 'thread release --check',\n  },",
     },
-    {
-        into: 'derivation.ts',
-        list: 'GENERATORS',
-        id: 'release-noun',
-        source: "  {\n    id: 'release-noun',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/derivation/makers/release.js',\n    describes: 'The command that declares where this app goes when it leaves your machine. It writes the row saying where this app goes and nothing else, because everything the config needs is already declared somewhere and asking for it again would be the app’s own facts typed a second time.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread create release',\n  },",
-    },
-    {
-        into: 'derivation.ts',
-        list: 'GENERATORS',
-        id: 'generator-noun',
-        source: "  {\n    id: 'generator-noun',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/derivation/generators/derivation.js',\n    describes: 'Declares a generator this app derives a file with. `thread create generator` asks what it is, where its file goes and the command that writes it, then writes the row and seeds the file beside it — so a generator arrives through the same wizard as everything else, and the command it names exists from that moment because the CLI reads every `by:` the tree states.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread create generator',\n  },",
-    },
 ];
 export const ATTACH = {
     attaches: SEEDED.attaches,

package/dist/derivation/attach.ts

@@ -46,18 +46,6 @@ const SHIPPED: readonly { readonly into: string; readonly list: string; readonly
     id: 'release-generator',
     source: "  {\n    id: 'release-generator',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/derivation/generators/release.js',\n    describes: 'The writer of what a host reads to run this app — it derives the config from what the app already declares, its own build and start commands and the names of every secret it says it must be given, and refuses to write while this app installs a package of this framework as a dependency, because what a host runs may hold nothing of the scaffolding that assembled it.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread release',\n    runs: 'thread release --check',\n  },",
   },
-  {
-    into: 'derivation.ts',
-    list: 'GENERATORS',
-    id: 'release-noun',
-    source: "  {\n    id: 'release-noun',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/derivation/makers/release.js',\n    describes: 'The command that declares where this app goes when it leaves your machine. It writes the row saying where this app goes and nothing else, because everything the config needs is already declared somewhere and asking for it again would be the app’s own facts typed a second time.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread create release',\n  },",
-  },
-  {
-    into: 'derivation.ts',
-    list: 'GENERATORS',
-    id: 'generator-noun',
-    source: "  {\n    id: 'generator-noun',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/derivation/generators/derivation.js',\n    describes: 'Declares a generator this app derives a file with. `thread create generator` asks what it is, where its file goes and the command that writes it, then writes the row and seeds the file beside it — so a generator arrives through the same wizard as everything else, and the command it names exists from that moment because the CLI reads every `by:` the tree states.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread create generator',\n  },",
-  },
 ]
 export const ATTACH: Attaching = {
   attaches: SEEDED.attaches,

package/dist/derivation/generators/build.js

@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@ var __rewriteRelativeImportExtension = (this && this.__rewriteRelativeImportExte
     }
     return path;
 };
-import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { relative, resolve } from 'node:path';
 import { argv, stderr, stdout } from 'node:process';
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
 import { build } from 'esbuild';
 import { descend, reached } from "../../core/descend.js";
+import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "../../core/files.js";
 import { exit, invoked } from "../../core/invoked.js";
+import { valuesIn } from "../../core/rows.js";
 import { findTree } from "../../core/tree.js";
 import { servesBrowser } from "../../integrations/target.js";
 const TREE = findTree();
@@ -57,23 +58,23 @@ const JSX = /\.(c|m)?(t|j)sx$/;
 function browsing(entry) {
     return JSX.test(entry);
 }
-async function sheet(file, list) {
+function sheet(file, list) {
     const path = resolve(ROOT, `${TREE.name}/${file}`);
     if (!existsSync(path))
         return [];
     try {
-        const held = (await import(__rewriteRelativeImportExtension(pathToFileURL(path).href)));
+        const held = valuesIn(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'));
         return held[list] ?? [];
     }
     catch {
         return [];
     }
 }
-async function withheld(pass) {
-    const targets = await sheet('targets.ts', 'TARGETS');
+function withheld(pass) {
+    const targets = sheet('targets.ts', 'TARGETS');
     if (targets.length === 0)
         return new Map();
-    const secrets = await sheet('secrets.ts', 'SECRETS');
+    const secrets = sheet('secrets.ts', 'SECRETS');
     const because = new Map();
     for (const one of targets) {
         const said = servesBrowser(one, secrets);
@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@ async function main() {
             exit(1);
         }
         const forBrowser = browsing(entry);
-        const refusals = forBrowser ? await withheld(pass) : new Map();
+        const refusals = forBrowser ? withheld(pass) : new Map();
         const held = await build({
             entryPoints: [resolve(ROOT, entry)],
             bundle: true,

package/dist/derivation/generators/build.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
 import { relative, resolve } from 'node:path'
 import { argv, stderr, stdout } from 'node:process'
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
@@ -6,7 +5,9 @@ import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
 import { build } from 'esbuild'
 
 import { descend, reached, type Pass } from '../../core/descend.ts'
+import { existsSync, readFileSync } from '../../core/files.ts'
 import { exit, invoked } from '../../core/invoked.ts'
+import { valuesIn } from '../../core/rows.ts'
 import { findTree } from '../../core/tree.ts'
 import type { Secret } from '../../integrations/secret.ts'
 import { servesBrowser, type Target } from '../../integrations/target.ts'
@@ -59,21 +60,21 @@ function browsing(entry: string): boolean {
   return JSX.test(entry)
 }
 
-async function sheet<T>(file: string, list: string): Promise<readonly T[]> {
+function sheet<T>(file: string, list: string): readonly T[] {
   const path = resolve(ROOT, `${TREE.name}/${file}`)
   if (!existsSync(path)) return []
   try {
-    const held = (await import(pathToFileURL(path).href)) as Record<string, readonly T[] | undefined>
+    const held = valuesIn(readFileSync(path, 'utf8')) as Record<string, readonly T[] | undefined>
     return held[list] ?? []
   } catch {
     return []
   }
 }
 
-async function withheld(pass: Pass): Promise<ReadonlyMap<string, string>> {
-  const targets = await sheet<Target>('targets.ts', 'TARGETS')
+function withheld(pass: Pass): ReadonlyMap<string, string> {
+  const targets = sheet<Target>('targets.ts', 'TARGETS')
   if (targets.length === 0) return new Map()
-  const secrets = await sheet<Secret>('secrets.ts', 'SECRETS')
+  const secrets = sheet<Secret>('secrets.ts', 'SECRETS')
 
   const because = new Map<string, string>()
   for (const one of targets) {
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
     }
 
     const forBrowser = browsing(entry)
-    const refusals = forBrowser ? await withheld(pass) : new Map<string, string>()
+    const refusals = forBrowser ? withheld(pass) : new Map<string, string>()
 
     const held = await build({
       entryPoints: [resolve(ROOT, entry)],

package/dist/derivation/generators/release.d.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 import { CHECKED_BY, WRITES } from '../release.ts';
-declare function made(): Promise<ReadonlyMap<string, string>>;
+declare function made(): ReadonlyMap<string, string>;
 export { CHECKED_BY, WRITES, made };

package/dist/derivation/generators/release.js

@@ -1,41 +1,33 @@
-var __rewriteRelativeImportExtension = (this && this.__rewriteRelativeImportExtension) || function (path, preserveJsx) {
-    if (typeof path === "string" && /^\.\.?\//.test(path)) {
-        return path.replace(/\.(tsx)$|((?:\.d)?)((?:\.[^./]+?)?)\.([cm]?)ts$/i, function (m, tsx, d, ext, cm) {
-            return tsx ? preserveJsx ? ".jsx" : ".js" : d && (!ext || !cm) ? m : (d + ext + "." + cm.toLowerCase() + "js");
-        });
-    }
-    return path;
-};
-import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { argv, stderr, stdout } from 'node:process';
-import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
-import { marked, wordsIn } from "../../core/asking.js";
+import { marked, wordsIn } from "../../core/answers.js";
+import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "../../core/files.js";
 import { exit, invoked } from "../../core/invoked.js";
+import { valuesIn } from "../../core/rows.js";
 import { ours } from "../../core/scope.js";
 import { findTree, inTree } from "../../core/tree.js";
 import { CHECKED_BY, KINDS, LISTENS, SAID, WRITES, WRITTEN_BY, kindOf } from "../release.js";
 const TREE = findTree();
 const MANIFEST = 'package.json';
 const mark = (one) => marked([one.id ?? '', one.at ?? '']);
-async function releases() {
+function releases() {
     const at = inTree(TREE, 'derivation.ts');
     if (!existsSync(at))
         return [];
     try {
-        const held = (await import(__rewriteRelativeImportExtension(pathToFileURL(at).href)));
+        const held = valuesIn(readFileSync(at, 'utf8'));
         return held.DERIVATION?.derives ?? [];
     }
     catch {
         return [];
     }
 }
-async function named() {
+function named() {
     const at = inTree(TREE, 'secrets.ts');
     if (!existsSync(at))
         return [];
     try {
-        const held = (await import(__rewriteRelativeImportExtension(pathToFileURL(at).href)));
+        const held = valuesIn(readFileSync(at, 'utf8'));
         return (held.SECRETS ?? []).map((one) => one.id.toUpperCase()).sort();
     }
     catch {
@@ -94,10 +86,10 @@ function compose(id, secrets) {
         '',
     ].join('\n');
 }
-async function made() {
+function made() {
     const found = new Map();
-    const rows = await releases();
-    const secrets = await named();
+    const rows = releases();
+    const secrets = named();
     const { build, start } = scripted();
     for (const one of rows) {
         const id = one.id;
@@ -121,8 +113,8 @@ function installed() {
     const held = JSON.parse(readFileSync(at, 'utf8'));
     return Object.keys(held.dependencies ?? {}).filter((one) => ours(one)).sort();
 }
-async function run() {
-    const rows = await releases();
+function run() {
+    const rows = releases();
     if (rows.length === 0) {
         stdout.write(`release: this app declares no release, so there is nowhere for it to go yet. Declare one with ` +
             `\`thread create release\` — it is ${KINDS.join(' or ')}, and the prefix on its id says which.\n`);
@@ -151,7 +143,7 @@ async function run() {
         }
         return 0;
     }
-    const files = await made();
+    const files = made();
     const checking = argv.includes('--check');
     const shipped = installed();
     if (shipped.length > 0) {
@@ -185,9 +177,9 @@ async function run() {
     for (const [at, text] of files)
         writeFileSync(join(TREE.at, at), text, 'utf8');
     stdout.write(`release: wrote ${[...files.keys()].join(', ')} — built and started by what this app's own manifest ` +
-        `declares, listening on ${String(LISTENS)}, naming ${String((await named()).length)} secret(s) and holding none of them.\n`);
+        `declares, listening on ${String(LISTENS)}, naming ${String(named().length)} secret(s) and holding none of them.\n`);
     return 0;
 }
 if (invoked(import.meta.url))
-    exit(await run());
+    exit(run());
 export { CHECKED_BY, WRITES, made };

package/dist/derivation/generators/release.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
 import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { argv, stderr, stdout } from 'node:process'
-import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
 
-import { marked, wordsIn } from '../../core/asking.ts'
+import { marked, wordsIn } from '../../core/answers.ts'
+import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from '../../core/files.ts'
 import { exit, invoked } from '../../core/invoked.ts'
+import { valuesIn } from '../../core/rows.ts'
 import { ours } from '../../core/scope.ts'
 import { findTree, inTree } from '../../core/tree.ts'
 
@@ -21,22 +21,22 @@ interface Row {
 
 const mark = (one: Row): string => marked([one.id ?? '', one.at ?? ''])
 
-async function releases(): Promise<readonly Row[]> {
+function releases(): readonly Row[] {
   const at = inTree(TREE, 'derivation.ts')
   if (!existsSync(at)) return []
   try {
-    const held = (await import(pathToFileURL(at).href)) as { DERIVATION?: { readonly derives?: readonly Row[] } }
+    const held = valuesIn(readFileSync(at, 'utf8')) as { DERIVATION?: { readonly derives?: readonly Row[] } }
     return held.DERIVATION?.derives ?? []
   } catch {
     return []
   }
 }
 
-async function named(): Promise<readonly string[]> {
+function named(): readonly string[] {
   const at = inTree(TREE, 'secrets.ts')
   if (!existsSync(at)) return []
   try {
-    const held = (await import(pathToFileURL(at).href)) as { SECRETS?: readonly { readonly id: string }[] }
+    const held = valuesIn(readFileSync(at, 'utf8')) as { SECRETS?: readonly { readonly id: string }[] }
     return (held.SECRETS ?? []).map((one) => one.id.toUpperCase()).sort()
   } catch {
     return []
@@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ function compose(id: string, secrets: readonly string[]): string {
   ].join('\n')
 }
 
-async function made(): Promise<ReadonlyMap<string, string>> {
+function made(): ReadonlyMap<string, string> {
   const found = new Map<string, string>()
-  const rows = await releases()
-  const secrets = await named()
+  const rows = releases()
+  const secrets = named()
   const { build, start } = scripted()
 
   for (const one of rows) {
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ function installed(): readonly string[] {
   return Object.keys(held.dependencies ?? {}).filter((one) => ours(one)).sort()
 }
 
-async function run(): Promise<number> {
-  const rows = await releases()
+function run(): number {
+  const rows = releases()
   if (rows.length === 0) {
     stdout.write(
       `release: this app declares no release, so there is nowhere for it to go yet. Declare one with ` +
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ async function run(): Promise<number> {
     return 0
   }
 
-  const files = await made()
+  const files = made()
   const checking = argv.includes('--check')
 
   const shipped = installed()
@@ -203,11 +203,11 @@ async function run(): Promise<number> {
   for (const [at, text] of files) writeFileSync(join(TREE.at, at), text, 'utf8')
   stdout.write(
     `release: wrote ${[...files.keys()].join(', ')} — built and started by what this app's own manifest ` +
-      `declares, listening on ${String(LISTENS)}, naming ${String((await named()).length)} secret(s) and holding none of them.\n`,
+      `declares, listening on ${String(LISTENS)}, naming ${String(named().length)} secret(s) and holding none of them.\n`,
   )
   return 0
 }
 
-if (invoked(import.meta.url)) exit(await run())
+if (invoked(import.meta.url)) exit(run())
 
 export { CHECKED_BY, WRITES, made }

package/dist/integrations/attach.js

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ const OWN = [
     },
 ];
 const SEEDED = {
-    attaches: ['@prestack/thread/derivation/attach'],
+    attaches: ['@prestack/thread/derivation/attach', '@prestack/thread/knowledge/attach'],
     id: 'integrations',
     declares: [
         '    {',
@@ -94,18 +94,6 @@ const SEEDED = {
     ].join('\n'),
 };
 const SHIPPED = [
-    {
-        into: 'derivation.ts',
-        list: 'GENERATORS',
-        id: 'target-generator',
-        source: "  {\n    id: 'target-generator',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/integrations/generators/target.js',\n    describes: 'The command that declares a place this app reaches. Asked for nothing it lists every target already here with what it accepts and what it requires, every way a target may be reached and what each way can hold, and every secret this app declares. It then asks what the place is called and how it is reached, puts the prefix on the id, asks which secret is its address and which go into a header, and writes the row — so a target arrives declared with its credential named rather than with an environment variable typed into whatever needed it.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread create target',\n  },",
-    },
-    {
-        into: 'derivation.ts',
-        list: 'GENERATORS',
-        id: 'secret-generator',
-        source: "  {\n    id: 'secret-generator',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/integrations/generators/secret.js',\n    describes: 'The command that declares a value this app must be given, and the only thing that ever takes one. It asks what the secret is for and who may hold it, puts `sec_` or `pub_` on the id accordingly, and writes the row. Then it asks a person for the value, with the terminal\\'s echo off, and seals it into the store beside the tree under a key it generates and never prints. The value goes from the keyboard into the sealed store and nowhere else: not into the row, not into the output, not into whatever transcript is being kept of the session that ran it.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread create secret',\n  },",
-    },
     {
         into: 'derivation.ts',
         list: 'GENERATORS',
@@ -118,12 +106,6 @@ const SHIPPED = [
         id: 'inspect-generator',
         source: "  {\n    id: 'inspect-generator',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/integrations/generators/read.js',\n    describes: 'The one command for reading what this app declares. Asked for nothing it prints every sheet and what each holds; asked for a word it prints every row whose id or sentence carries it. It reads the tree rather than the files, which is the whole reason it exists: a row is a nested TypeScript literal and a search over lines answers questions about text while the questions people actually ask are about rows.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread inspect',\n  },",
     },
-    {
-        into: 'derivation.ts',
-        list: 'GENERATORS',
-        id: 'call-noun',
-        source: "  {\n    id: 'call-noun',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/integrations/generators/target.js',\n    describes: 'The command that makes an already-declared call happen. `thread run call <id>` asks for whatever its path leaves to be filled in — `{like_this}` — by name, and for a call that writes (POST, PUT, PATCH) a JSON body, then resolves the target\\'s address and every credential it requires through the vault at the moment of the call and never before. Nothing here ever names a vendor: a call already states its target, its method and its path, and which one runs is read off its own id, exactly as `thread run trial` reads an operation\\'s.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread run call',\n  },",
-    },
 ];
 export const ATTACH = {
     attaches: SEEDED.attaches,

package/dist/integrations/attach.ts

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ const OWN: readonly { readonly into: string; readonly list: string; readonly id:
 ]
 
 const SEEDED = {
-  attaches: ['@prestack/thread/derivation/attach'] as const,
+  attaches: ['@prestack/thread/derivation/attach', '@prestack/thread/knowledge/attach'] as const,
   id: 'integrations',
   declares: [
     '    {',
@@ -120,18 +120,6 @@ const SEEDED = {
 }
 
 const SHIPPED: readonly { readonly into: string; readonly list: string; readonly id: string; readonly source: string }[] = [
-  {
-    into: 'derivation.ts',
-    list: 'GENERATORS',
-    id: 'target-generator',
-    source: "  {\n    id: 'target-generator',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/integrations/generators/target.js',\n    describes: 'The command that declares a place this app reaches. Asked for nothing it lists every target already here with what it accepts and what it requires, every way a target may be reached and what each way can hold, and every secret this app declares. It then asks what the place is called and how it is reached, puts the prefix on the id, asks which secret is its address and which go into a header, and writes the row — so a target arrives declared with its credential named rather than with an environment variable typed into whatever needed it.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread create target',\n  },",
-  },
-  {
-    into: 'derivation.ts',
-    list: 'GENERATORS',
-    id: 'secret-generator',
-    source: "  {\n    id: 'secret-generator',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/integrations/generators/secret.js',\n    describes: 'The command that declares a value this app must be given, and the only thing that ever takes one. It asks what the secret is for and who may hold it, puts `sec_` or `pub_` on the id accordingly, and writes the row. Then it asks a person for the value, with the terminal\\'s echo off, and seals it into the store beside the tree under a key it generates and never prints. The value goes from the keyboard into the sealed store and nowhere else: not into the row, not into the output, not into whatever transcript is being kept of the session that ran it.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread create secret',\n  },",
-  },
   {
     into: 'derivation.ts',
     list: 'GENERATORS',
@@ -144,12 +132,6 @@ const SHIPPED: readonly { readonly into: string; readonly list: string; readonly
     id: 'inspect-generator',
     source: "  {\n    id: 'inspect-generator',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/integrations/generators/read.js',\n    describes: 'The one command for reading what this app declares. Asked for nothing it prints every sheet and what each holds; asked for a word it prints every row whose id or sentence carries it. It reads the tree rather than the files, which is the whole reason it exists: a row is a nested TypeScript literal and a search over lines answers questions about text while the questions people actually ask are about rows.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread inspect',\n  },",
   },
-  {
-    into: 'derivation.ts',
-    list: 'GENERATORS',
-    id: 'call-noun',
-    source: "  {\n    id: 'call-noun',\n    at: 'node_modules/@prestack/thread/dist/integrations/generators/target.js',\n    describes: 'The command that makes an already-declared call happen. `thread run call <id>` asks for whatever its path leaves to be filled in — `{like_this}` — by name, and for a call that writes (POST, PUT, PATCH) a JSON body, then resolves the target\\'s address and every credential it requires through the vault at the moment of the call and never before. Nothing here ever names a vendor: a call already states its target, its method and its path, and which one runs is read off its own id, exactly as `thread run trial` reads an operation\\'s.',\n    version: 1,\n    by: 'thread run call',\n  },",
-  },
 ]
 export const ATTACH: Attaching = {
   attaches: SEEDED.attaches,

package/dist/integrations/generators/read.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { stdout } from 'node:process';
 import { exit } from "../../core/invoked.js";
-import { wordsIn } from "../../core/asking.js";
+import { TYPED, wordsIn } from "../../core/answers.js";
 import { descend } from "../../core/descend.js";
 const words = wordsIn([]);
 const looking = words.join(' ').trim().toLowerCase();
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ if (looking === '') {
         out.push(`  ${String(held.length).padStart(4)}  ${file}`);
     }
     out.unshift(`${String(files.length)} sheet(s) in this tree, and what each holds:`, '');
-    out.push('', 'Name a word to read the rows themselves — every row whose id, sentence, path, command or', 'requirement carries it, each with what it means:', '', '  npx thread inspect element', '  npx thread inspect variant', '  npx thread inspect <any word above, or any word this tree coins>', '');
+    out.push('', 'Name a word to read the rows themselves — every row whose id, sentence, path, command or', 'requirement carries it, each with what it means:', '', `  ${TYPED} inspect element`, `  ${TYPED} inspect variant`, `  ${TYPED} inspect <any word above, or any word this tree coins>`, '');
     stdout.write(`${out.join('\n')}\n`);
     stdout.write(`read: ${String(rows)} row(s) across ${String(pass.declarations)} declaration(s), ` +
         `and ${String(pass.findings.length)} finding(s) the gate would report.\n`);

package/dist/integrations/generators/read.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { stdout } from 'node:process'
 
 import { exit } from '../../core/invoked.ts'
-import { wordsIn } from '../../core/asking.ts'
+import { TYPED, wordsIn } from '../../core/answers.ts'
 import { descend, type Row } from '../../core/descend.ts'
 
 const words = wordsIn([])
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ if (looking === '') {
     'Name a word to read the rows themselves — every row whose id, sentence, path, command or',
     'requirement carries it, each with what it means:',
     '',
-    '  npx thread inspect element',
-    '  npx thread inspect variant',
-    '  npx thread inspect <any word above, or any word this tree coins>',
+    `  ${TYPED} inspect element`,
+    `  ${TYPED} inspect variant`,
+    `  ${TYPED} inspect <any word above, or any word this tree coins>`,
     '',
   )
   stdout.write(`${out.join('\n')}\n`)

package/dist/integrations/generators/vault.js

@@ -1,12 +1,5 @@
-var __rewriteRelativeImportExtension = (this && this.__rewriteRelativeImportExtension) || function (path, preserveJsx) {
-    if (typeof path === "string" && /^\.\.?\//.test(path)) {
-        return path.replace(/\.(tsx)$|((?:\.d)?)((?:\.[^./]+?)?)\.([cm]?)ts$/i, function (m, tsx, d, ext, cm) {
-            return tsx ? preserveJsx ? ".jsx" : ".js" : d && (!ext || !cm) ? m : (d + ext + "." + cm.toLowerCase() + "js");
-        });
-    }
-    return path;
-};
-import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "../../core/files.js";
+import { valuesIn } from "../../core/rows.js";
 import { dirname, join, relative } from 'node:path';
 import { argv, stderr, stdout } from 'node:process';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
@@ -31,7 +24,7 @@ function refuse(because) {
 }
 let secrets = [];
 try {
-    const taken = (await import(__rewriteRelativeImportExtension(new URL(`file://${from}`).href)));
+    const taken = valuesIn(readFileSync(from));
     secrets = taken.SECRETS ?? [];
 }
 catch {
@@ -80,7 +73,7 @@ async function taken(file, list) {
     if (!existsSync(at))
         return [];
     try {
-        const held = (await import(__rewriteRelativeImportExtension(new URL(`file://${at}`).href)));
+        const held = valuesIn(readFileSync(at));
         return held[list] ?? [];
     }
     catch {
@@ -187,7 +180,6 @@ if (existsSync(path) && readFileSync(path, 'utf8') === SOURCE) {
     stdout.write(`vault: ${AT} is already yours — it opens ${opening}, read off ${here(from)} as they are declared.\n`);
     exit(0);
 }
-mkdirSync(dirname(path), { recursive: true });
 writeFileSync(path, SOURCE, 'utf8');
 stdout.write(`vault: wrote ${AT} — what opens a secret's value at the moment of use.\n` +
     `  It opens the values sealed under ${SEALED_AT} for the secrets declared in ${here(from)}, and refuses every other name.\n` +

package/dist/integrations/generators/vault.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from '../../core/files.ts'
+import { valuesIn } from '../../core/rows.ts'
 import { dirname, join, relative } from 'node:path'
 import { argv, stderr, stdout } from 'node:process'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ function refuse(because: string): never {
 
 let secrets: readonly Secret[] = []
 try {
-  const taken = (await import(new URL(`file://${from}`).href)) as { SECRETS?: readonly Secret[] }
+  const taken = valuesIn(readFileSync(from)) as { SECRETS?: readonly Secret[] }
   secrets = taken.SECRETS ?? []
 } catch {
   refuse(`${here(from)} could not be read. Attach \`${packageOf('integrations')}\` first — an app states its secrets there.`)
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ async function taken<T>(file: string, list: string): Promise<readonly T[]> {
   const at = inTree(TREE, file)
   if (!existsSync(at)) return []
   try {
-    const held = (await import(new URL(`file://${at}`).href)) as Record<string, readonly T[] | undefined>
+    const held = valuesIn(readFileSync(at)) as Record<string, readonly T[] | undefined>
     return held[list] ?? []
   } catch {
     return []
@@ -201,7 +202,6 @@ if (existsSync(path) && readFileSync(path, 'utf8') === SOURCE) {
   exit(0)
 }
 
-mkdirSync(dirname(path), { recursive: true })
 writeFileSync(path, SOURCE, 'utf8')
 stdout.write(
   `vault: wrote ${AT} — what opens a secret's value at the moment of use.\n` +

package/dist/integrations/module.js

@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ var __rewriteRelativeImportExtension = (this && this.__rewriteRelativeImportExte
 };
 import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
 import { argv, stderr, stdout } from 'node:process';
-import { answer, asking, given, only, wordsIn } from "../core/asking.js";
+import { answer, asking, given, unasked, wordsIn } from "../core/answers.js";
+import { readFileSync } from "../core/files.js";
 import { exit } from "../core/invoked.js";
+import { valuesIn } from "../core/rows.js";
 import { findTree, inTree } from "../core/tree.js";
 import { REACH, reachOf } from "./target.js";
 import { opened } from "./vault.js";
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ export async function ran(name) {
     const tree = findTree();
     let targets = [];
     try {
-        const taken = (await import(__rewriteRelativeImportExtension(new URL(`file://${inTree(tree, 'targets.ts')}`).href)));
+        const taken = valuesIn(readFileSync(inTree(tree, 'targets.ts')));
         targets = taken.TARGETS ?? [];
     }
     catch {
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ export async function run(declared) {
         return refuse(`\`${method}\` is not a method path — one name, or names joined by dots, e.g. \`customers.list\``);
     }
     const piped = given();
-    only(piped, TAKES, `\`thread run ${declared.name} ${method}\``);
+    unasked(piped, TAKES, `\`thread run ${declared.name} ${method}\``);
     const { ask, shut } = asking(piped);
     const typed = (piped.length > 0
         ? (answer(piped, TAKES[0] ?? 'args') ?? '')