What a .grid file replaces…
Most stacks split state across half a dozen systems. A SQL database holds the rows.
A schema-migration tool tracks the columns.
A permissions layer gates who reads what.
An audit log records who did what.
A session store decides who's logged in.
An OpenAPI spec describes the surface.
The stack is held together by glue you write yourself.
A .grid file holds all of it:
•Data → cells with bodies
•Schema → cell types and slot conventions (themselves cells)
•Access control → capability cells at @/system/capabilities/<name>
•Audit log → the chain. Every write, who, when, hash. Free.
•Identity registry → identity cells at @/system/identities/<name>
•Structural map → @/system/grid materialized on demand
•Reference index → @/system/refs built from &@ sigils
You don't add an audit log.
The chain IS the audit log. You don't add row-level security. Capability cells project a different view of the same file to each identity. You don't write a migration when the shape changes. You write new cells.
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