Z+ Language Reference

Signal flow. Nothing else. Z+ describes connections between signals. The OS resolves them. You don't tell the machine what to do. You tell it what's connected to what.

sensor -> gate(> 20cm) -> motor

That's a program. The sensor emits. The gate evaluates. The motor responds. Continuously.

Sections

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Operators

Flow, structure, logic, temporal, and value operators. The entire language.

gate()

Gates

The universal logic construct. Threshold, range, knee, sustained, on_block, composite.

delta()

Delta

Rate of change. Baseline, deviation, sigma. Reason about what signals are doing, not what they are.

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Merge

Multiple signals converge. Policies: all, any, quorum. Resonance and confluence.

vault

Vault

Signal-aware data surface. Store, query, search, vector similarity, ledger, replay.

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Types

Signal-oriented type system. Unit enforcement. Structured signals. No generics, no classes.

mde()

AI Routing

AI models as signal graph nodes. Hardware pinning, hot-swap, cascading experts.

reflex

Priority

Two speeds of resolution. Reflex is spinal. Deliberate is cortical.

on_silence

Errors

Graceful degradation. Silence detection. Graded failure. Retry with escalation.

channel

Channels

Named merge points with storage and taps. Chat, queues, timelines, feeds.

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Exchange

Bidirectional signal flow. Request/response. The wire remembers where the signal came from.

File format

Z+ programs use the .zp extension. No imports, no main function, no boilerplate. The file is wiring. The wiring is the program.

$ ls my-project/
main.zp          # primary wiring
sensors.zp       # sensor definitions
behaviors.zp     # behavior logic