Overview
Meet AEON
Start with the homepage for the smallest framing of AEON as a human-readable data notation for explicit meaning.
Start
Begin with the pages that introduce AEON in order.
This hub gathers the orientation pages: what AEON is, why it exists, what it can do, and how to move from first syntax into practical use.
Use it when you want a readable path through the language before opening the reference pages.
Orientation
Understand the shape of the system first.
Why
See the problem AEON solves
Read why hidden parser guesses, implicit meaning, and runtime surprises make important documents harder to trust.
Capabilities
Scan the main features
Use the capabilities page for the high-level map: typed structure, validation layers, canonical form, references, annotations, and non-execution.
First Use
Move from reading into writing and integration.
Developer
Run the first pipeline
See source text enter the TypeScript runtime, pass strict validation, and become finalized JSON data.
AI
Use AEON around AI systems
Learn how AEON supports language help, deterministic integration, typed API calls, audited tool use, and AI-native source context.
Basics
Learn the syntax in order
Walk through bindings, scalar values, containers, type labels, comments, multiline text, and the first verification exercise.
Guided Sequence
Continue through the focused walkthroughs.
Advanced
Add AEON's richer forms
Continue with custom types, anonymous typed values, nulls, attributes, separator values, references, nodes, and semantic comments.
Processing
Follow source through the pipeline
Trace one document through canonical form, assignment events, schema validation, meaning validation, and Tonic materialization.
Annotations
Connect data, comments, and rendering
See AEON data, node templates, and semantic comments become an annotation stream and rendered HTML without hidden behavior.