Make ir/ the unit of versioned downstream consumption so consuming repos can pin a version, inspect it, and follow changes at their own pace. - T03 ir/manifest.json: per-version inventory + diff anchor with deterministic sha256-over-canonicalised-JSON hashes; no-churn generatedAt; manifest schema. - T07 ir/INDEX.md: human-readable catalog generated by make ir. - T04 .whynot-design.lock sync-point format + lock schema. - T05 npx @whynot/design drift: consumer drift-check (bin entry), exit 0/2/3, --json/--update/--manifest/--version/--lock. - T06 CONSUMING.md guide + examples/consumer-fixture/ runnable demo; README + MultiFrameworkSupport cross-links; fix README version pin (@0.3.0 not @v0.3.0). - T09 CONSUMER_CONTRACT_PARITY.md design-only note (live-UI parity deferred). T02 (publish) and T08 (showcase, blocked on WP-0002 T11) remain wait. Repo stays in dev mode; no outward publish performed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ir/ — technology-neutral design blueprint
This directory holds the intermediate representation (IR) of the whynot design language: tokens, per-component contracts, and reference exemplars, in a form that carries no framework assumptions.
Decision: ir/ is committed
ir/ is checked into git, on purpose. The IR is the diffable blueprint of the
shared language — committing it means a re-extract (make ir) surfaces every
blueprint change as a reviewable git diff, and adapters have a stable, versioned
input. It is a build input, not a throwaway build output.
What is committed:
tokens.json— all tokens, W3C DTCG format.components/<Name>.json— one contract per component.exemplars/<Name>.{png,html}— reference renders from the designbook preview.manifest.json— the per-version inventory + diff anchor:{ schemaVersion, designVersion, generatedAt, tokensHash, components: [{ name, group, hash }] }, where each hash is a deterministic content hash (sha256 over canonicalised JSON). This is what a consuming repo pins against and what thedriftcheck compares (WHYNOT-WP-0003). Validated byschema/manifest.schema.json.INDEX.md— the human-readable catalog, generated from the same contracts: per component its group, description, props/variants/slots/events, and a link to its exemplar. Browse a version without cloning or running anything.schema/+SCHEMA.md— the contract definitions (this is what T01 delivered).
manifest.json and INDEX.md are generated by the same extractor as the rest of
ir/ and share its one-way rule — do not hand-edit them.
Direction of flow
Claude Design (React) ──/design-sync──▶ designbook/ ──make ir──▶ ir/ ──make adapt-lit──▶ adapters/lit/
One-way. The only writer of tokens.json, components/, and exemplars/ is the
extractor (scripts/ir-extract.mjs, T05). Do not hand-edit those — change the
language in Claude Design and re-propagate. The schema/ files and these docs are
the exception: they are authored here.
See SCHEMA.md for the full contract spec and a worked Button
exemplar.