[wolfejam]

This paper validates what we've been building toward. The core issue isn't the idea of context files — it's that prose is the wrong format for structured facts.

AI crushes structured data like package.json but struggles with free-form markdown. Two developers describe the same repo completely differently. There's no schema, no validation, no scoring.

Our paper on CERN's Zenodo proposes FAF — a structured YAML format (IANA-registered as application/vnd.faf+yaml) that replaces prose with validated fields. One .faf file generates native outputs for CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, and GEMINI.md. The instruction files stay — they just sit on top of a structured foundation instead of floating independently.

Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18251362