Global methods GitHub issue

vibecode
{"vibecode": {
    "doc": "global_methods",
    "role": "catalog of Caspian's global methods — the %-prefixed surfaces every script reaches for. Includes capability sugar (%net, %utils, %puck, %stdout, %stderr, %chain) plus a few language constructs. Companion to the %engine catalog in script-context.md, which documents the engine-only slots underneath.",
    "audience": "Caspian developers asking 'what global methods can I use?'",
    "organization": "single index pointing to per-method docs in this directory",
    "key_concepts": ["global_methods_catalog",
        "capability_sugar_over_percent_engine_slots",
        "reachable_from_any_role_with_capability",
        "single_flat_list_with_links_to_details"]
}}

%-prefixed methods reachable from user code at the top level. Most are global forms of user-only %engine.X slots — %net is sugar over %engine.network, %utils.tmp is sugar over %engine.tmp, etc. — and are reachable from any role (subject to that role having been granted the capability). A few are language constructs (%self, %scope, %bucket, %call) rather than capability surfaces.

For the user-only engine-slot view, see script-context.md.

For the syntactic spec of the % prefix (what it means, how shorthands like %[url] work), see syntax/system-methods.md.

Catalog GitHub issue

Capability surfaces GitHub issue

These are the global forms of %engine.X slots. Reachable from any role.

Method Purpose Docs
%net Networking — HTTP client, raw sockets, fetch utils/, ../network/
%utils Convenience utilities — forks, broadcast, tmp, timer, random, encryption, etc. utils/
%puck Library lookup and class registration (URL → class) ../puck/
%chain Ambient logging chain; nested call-frame tree ../packages/jasmine/caspian.md
%stdout / %stderr Output and error streams ../script-context.md#streams
%stdin Input stream ../script-context.md#streams

Shorthand forms GitHub issue

Shorthand Expands to
%[url] / %puck[url] Library lookup by URL
%vibecode <<EOF ... EOF %documentation <<EOF('vibecode') ... EOF

Language constructs GitHub issue

These are %-prefixed but aren't capability surfaces — they're language-level globals. Full catalog at syntax/system-methods.md.

Method Purpose
%self The current object instance (self is the bare-word shorthand)
%bucket The current object's private data hash (@foo is the bare-word shorthand)
%scope (Post-V1) Reflective lexical-scope access — see ideas/caspian/scope.md
%call The current call object — function/closure, dispatcher, blocks, return
%role The currently-executing role
%process Process control — .exit, .abort
%documentation / %vibecode Save a documentation block in CaspianJ (pre-V1.0 not available to running scripts)
%engine User-only, top-level only — gateway to host resources. See script-context.md

See also GitHub issue

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