ZJX

Compressed structural transport for agent-written software.

ZJX is the native structural transport and cache envelope developed by Greyforge Labs for Sley.

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What It Is

ZJX is a compact envelope for moving structured program data between agents, the Sley Loom, caches, and verification tools.

Sley owns the semantic graph. ZJX carries bounded graph shards, graft bundles, diagnostics, trace receipts, repeated module snapshots, and sealed artifacts without making every agent/compiler exchange a raw text or JSON payload.

Current Status

Why Sley Needs ZJX

Sley is built for agents that query, edit, and verify program structure. That workflow needs a wire format shaped like the work: bounded shards, stable node identity, explicit operation bundles, and receipts that can be cached and audited.

ZJX is the transport layer for that loop. Sley and ZJX are not two unrelated products. Sley gives the program model. ZJX moves that model through the agent/compiler system.

The Core Idea

• Graphs move as graphs. Agents should not need to reconstruct structure from text offsets.
• Payloads are bounded. A shard should carry only the relevant slice plus the identities and witnesses needed to edit safely.
• Grafts are first-class. A patch bundle can preserve operation, target, provenance, and expected checks.
• Receipts matter. Accepted work should leave traceable proof that the Loom accepted it.
• Sley is the native language. ZJX is designed around Sley graph shards and Loom-gated grafts.

Read Next

• Read the ZJX documentation
• Read who built it, why, and how it fits Sley
• Read the Sley documentation

ZJX is in active v0 design and integration work. Claims on this page describe the current architecture direction, not a frozen public binary standard.

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