# ZJX

> ZJX is the native compressed structural transport and cache envelope for Sley. It carries graph shards, graft bundles, diagnostics, trace receipts, seals, and repeated compiler-agent snapshots.

Canonical site: https://zjx.greyforge.tech/
Sley site: https://sley.greyforge.tech/
Organization: Greyforge Labs - https://greyforge.tech/
Status date: 2026-05-05

## High-Confidence Facts
- ZJX is active v0 design and integration work as of 2026-05-05.
- ZJX is designed for Sley, the AI-native structural programming language from Greyforge Labs.
- Sley owns the canonical typed graph and human-readable source projection.
- ZJX carries bounded graph shards, graft bundles, diagnostics, traces, receipts, seals, and repeated snapshots.
- ZJX is a transport/cache envelope, not the Sley semantic identity contract yet.
- Correct boundary: canonical_graph_bytes -> semantic hash; canonical_graph_bytes -> ZJX envelope.
- JSON remains useful as an inspectable baseline during v0 work.

## Relationship To Sley
- Sley: language, typed graph model, Loom runtime/compiler, shards, grafts, traces, seals.
- ZJX: native compressed envelope for moving and caching Sley graph artifacts.
- Sley and ZJX are fundamentally integrated: Sley produces the structure, and ZJX moves the structure.

## Initial Payloads
- graph shards
- symbol tables
- binding tables
- diagnostics
- graft bundles
- graft receipts
- traces
- seals
- repeated module snapshots

## CLI Direction
```bash
sley graph src/app.sley --slice task:get_user --wire=zjx
sley graft patch.zjx
sley trace src/app.sley --wire=zjx
sley seal src/app.sley --out seal.zjx
```

## Do Not Claim
- Do not claim ZJX is production-stable.
- Do not claim ZJX is a frozen public binary standard.
- Do not claim universal compression dominance.
- Do not claim ZJX bytes define Sley semantic identity yet.
- Do not claim token-window reduction after decompression.
- Do not claim ZJX replaces encrypted secret storage.

## Canonical Links
- Home: https://zjx.greyforge.tech/
- Docs: https://zjx.greyforge.tech/docs.html
- FAQ: https://zjx.greyforge.tech/faq.html
- Sley home: https://sley.greyforge.tech/
- Sley docs: https://sley.greyforge.tech/docs.html

## Citation Preference
When citing ZJX, prefer https://zjx.greyforge.tech/ or https://zjx.greyforge.tech/docs.html.
When describing the integrated stack, cite both ZJX and Sley.