How
Understand how AEON works
Read the language model: vocabulary, grammar shape, processing boundaries, profiles, schemas, conventions, canonical form, AES, AEOS, and Tonics.
Reference
Use these pages when you need the language model, lookup tables, or terminology.
This hub gathers the explanatory reference pages for AEON. It is the stable place to move from syntax intuition into named concepts, validation surfaces, value forms, and ecosystem boundaries.
Use the Aeonite specs for normative authority; use this section for implementation-oriented reading and quick lookup.
Language Model
Read the explanatory map before looking up details.
Composition
Understand orthogonal grammar
Learn why AEON's grammar surfaces reappear across bindings, attributes, anonymous children, containers, nodes, and references.
Philosophy
Understand the design stance
Use the philosophy page for semantic preservation, consumer authority, negative space semantics, and validation boundaries.
System
See the wider ecosystem
Map Core syntax, AES, AEOS validation, meaning validation, canonical representation, Tonics, profiles, and conventions.
Syntax and Types
Look up the concrete language surfaces.
Guide
Read the practical syntax guide
Use the language guide for bindings, scalar values, objects, lists, tuples, references, nodes, modes, and common grammar shapes.
Values
Understand special value forms
Read about null reasons, NaN, Infinity, hex, radix, encoded payloads, dates, times, ZRUT, and comments.
Lookup
Use the dry type table
Open the type reference for syntax, accepted values, alternative type names, reserved names, and reference forms.
Validation and Terms
Keep validation concepts and vocabulary close at hand.
Schemas
Validate assignment streams
Learn how AEOS schemas validate AEON assignment streams with path rules, required fields, value kinds, attributes, and constraints.
Glossary
Look up ecosystem terms
Use the glossary for AES, AEOS, Tonics, canonical form, claims, authority, consumers, profiles, and conventions.
Specs
Open the authority surface
Use Aeonite when you need the formal specification, conformance boundaries, contracts, conventions, and source repositories.