Grand Diomande Research · Full HTML Reader

NKO-2.5 Complete — NKoCulture Swift Module

**Task:** Build NKoCulture — proverbs, blessings, cultural calendar in Swift **Status:** ✅ COMPLETE **Date:** 2026-02-19 **Build:** `swift build` ✅ | `swift test` ✅ (35/35 pass, 0 failures)

Language as Infrastructure research note experiment writeup candidate score 24 .md

Full Public Reader

NKO-2.5 Complete — NKoCulture Swift Module

Task: Build NKoCulture — proverbs, blessings, cultural calendar in Swift
Status: ✅ COMPLETE
Date: 2026-02-19
Build: `swift build` ✅ | `swift test` ✅ (35/35 pass, 0 failures)

---

What Was Built

The `NKoCulture` Swift module — a complete, production-quality Swift Package providing programmatic access to all N'Ko cultural heritage data. Every proverb, blessing, greeting, clan, calendar event, and cultural concept loads correctly from bundled JSON resources.

Files Created (7 Swift files + 6 JSON resources)

shared/SwiftCore/Sources/NKoCulture/
├── NKoCulture.swift        — Main class: singleton, lazy-loading, thread-safe (18.7 KB)
├── Proverb.swift           — Codable struct, multi-script, search, categories (4.4 KB)
├── Blessing.swift          — Codable struct, life events, emotions, categories (4.3 KB)
├── Greeting.swift          — Codable struct, protocol phases, time context (3.7 KB)
├── Clan.swift              — Codable struct, lineage, totems, praise names (2.7 KB)
├── CulturalEvent.swift     — Codable struct, calendar, Islamic/regional (2.8 KB)
├── CulturalConcept.swift   — Codable struct, concepts/titles/kinship (3.0 KB)
└── Resources/
    ├── proverbs-unified.json      (62 proverbs)
    ├── blessings-unified.json     (29 blessings)
    ├── greetings-unified.json     (23 greetings)
    ├── clans-unified.json         (9 clans)
    ├── cultural-calendar.json     (7 events)
    └── cultural-concepts.json     (12 concepts)

shared/SwiftCore/Tests/
└── CultureTests.swift      — 34 tests covering all datasets (13.9 KB)

Data Loading Verification

DatasetExpectedLoadedStatus
Proverbs6262
Blessings2929
Greetings2323
Clans99
Calendar Events77
Cultural Concepts1212
Total142142

---

Public API

NKoCulture (Main Access Point)

swift
let culture = NKoCulture.shared

// — Proverbs (62 entries) —
culture.proverbs                          // [Proverb] — all 62
culture.randomProverb()                   // Proverb? — random pick
culture.searchProverbs(query: "wisdom")   // [Proverb] — text search
culture.proverbs(inCategory: "patience")  // [Proverb] — by category
culture.proverbs(inLanguage: "Bambara")   // [Proverb] — by language
culture.proverbs(formality: "formal")     // [Proverb] — by formality
culture.proverbs(inRegion: "Mali")        // [Proverb] — by dialect region
culture.proverbsWithNkoScript             // [Proverb] — has N'Ko text
culture.codeWisdomProverbs                // [Proverb] — code pattern mappings
culture.proverbCategories                 // Set<String> — all categories
culture.proverbLanguages                  // Set<String> — all languages

// — Blessings (29 entries) —
culture.blessings                          // [Blessing]
culture.randomBlessing()                   // Blessing?
culture.blessings(for: .wedding)           // [Blessing] — by life event
culture.blessings(category: .condolence)   // [Blessing] — by category
culture.appropriateBlessing(for: .death)   // Blessing? — smart fallback
culture.detectLifeEventBlessings(from: "My uncle died")  // [Blessing]? — NLP
culture.condolences                        // [Blessing]
culture.congratulations                    // [Blessing]
culture.farewellBlessings                  // [Blessing]
culture.blessingResponses                  // [Blessing] — "Amina" etc.

// — Greetings (23 entries, multi-turn protocol) —
culture.greetings                          // [Greeting]
culture.randomGreeting()                   // Greeting?
culture.greetings(phase: .opening)         // [Greeting] — by protocol phase
culture.greetings(forTime: .morning)       // [Greeting] — by time of day
culture.openingGreetings(forTime: .evening) // [Greeting]
culture.greetingSequence(forTime: .morning) // [Greeting] — full protocol
culture.familyInquiries                    // [Greeting]
culture.welfareInquiries                   // [Greeting]

// — Clans (9 entries) —
culture.clans                              // [Clan]
culture.clan(named: "Keita")               // Clan? — lookup by name
culture.griotClans                         // [Clan] — hereditary griots
culture.nobleClans                         // [Clan] — noble lineages
culture.clans(inRegion: "Guinea")          // [Clan] — by region

// — Calendar (7 events) —
culture.calendarEvents                     // [CulturalEvent]
culture.islamicEvents                      // [CulturalEvent]
culture.regionalEvents                     // [CulturalEvent]
culture.fixedDateEvents                    // [CulturalEvent]
culture.calendarEvents(withTheme: "family") // [CulturalEvent]

// — Concepts (12 entries) —
culture.concepts                           // [CulturalConcept]
culture.concept(named: "sanaku")           // CulturalConcept?
culture.titles                             // [CulturalConcept] — honorifics
culture.kinshipTerms                       // [CulturalConcept]
culture.coreConcepts                       // [CulturalConcept]
culture.concepts(withTag: "family")        // [CulturalConcept]

// — Metadata —
culture.stats                              // [String: Int] — counts per dataset
culture.totalEntries                       // Int — 142
culture.summary                            // String — formatted summary

Enums

EnumValues
`BlessingCategory``.blessing`, `.condolence`, `.congratulation`, `.apology`, `.farewell`, `.response`
`LifeEvent``.general`, `.birth`, `.namingCeremony`, `.wedding`, `.death`, `.illness`, `.journey`, `.eid`, `.ramadan`, `.achievement`, `.reunion`
`GreetingPhase``.opening`, `.response`, `.welfare`, `.family`, `.work`, `.closing`, `.blessing`
`SpeakerRole``.initiator`, `.responder`
`TimeContext``.morning`, `.afternoon`, `.evening`, `.night`, `.general`
`ConceptType``.concept`, `.title`, `.kinship`, `.lifeEventsReference`

---

Test Results

Test Suite 'All tests' passed at 2026-02-19 12:49:46.134.
  Executed 35 tests, with 0 failures (0 unexpected) in 0.023 seconds

CultureTests: 34 tests
  ✅ testProverbsLoad (62 proverbs)
  ✅ testBlessingsLoad (29 blessings)
  ✅ testGreetingsLoad (23 greetings)
  ✅ testClansLoad (9 clans)
  ✅ testCalendarEventsLoad (7 events)
  ✅ testConceptsLoad (12 concepts)
  ✅ testTotalEntries (142 total)
  ✅ testStatsKeys
  ✅ testRandomProverb
  ✅ testSearchProverbs
  ✅ testProverbsByCategory
  ✅ testProverbsByLanguage
  ✅ testNkoScriptProverbs
  ✅ testCodeWisdomProverbs
  ✅ testProverbCategories
  ✅ testRandomBlessing
  ✅ testBlessingsByLifeEvent
  ✅ testAppropriateBlessing
  ✅ testLifeEventDetection
  ✅ testBlessingCategories
  ✅ testGreetingsByTime
  ✅ testGreetingPhases
  ✅ testGreetingSequence
  ✅ testClanLookup
  ✅ testClanLineages
  ✅ testCalendarClassification
  ✅ testConceptLookup
  ✅ testConceptTypes
  ✅ testVersion
  ✅ testSummary
  ✅ testProverbIntegrity
  ✅ testBlessingIntegrity
  ✅ testProverbIDUniqueness
  ✅ testBlessingIDUniqueness

NKoCoreTests: 1 test
  ✅ testVersionExists

Architecture Notes

  • Thread-safe: `NSLock` protects all lazy-loaded caches
  • Sendable: All models are `Sendable` for Swift concurrency
  • Lazy loading: Data only loads on first access per dataset
  • Zero copy: JSON resources bundled via SPM `.process("Resources")`
  • Faithful to Python: API mirrors `nko/culture.py` (230 lines) but adds Swift-idiomatic features (enums, Codable, computed properties)
  • Life event detection: `detectLifeEventBlessings(from:)` scans text for life events in English and N'Ko, returns culturally appropriate blessings
  • Greeting protocol: Preserves Manding multi-turn greeting structure (OPENING → RESPONSE → WELFARE → FAMILY → CLOSING → BLESSING)

Quality Gate

✅ Structure — 7 Swift files + 6 JSON resources correctly organized
✅ Compilation — `swift build` succeeds cleanly
✅ Integration — NKoCulture target in Package.swift with resource bundling
✅ Content — 142/142 cultural entries load with zero loss
✅ User Journey — Random, search, filter, detect all work
✅ Data Integrity — All IDs unique, all entries have text, all enums decode

Promotion Decision

Attach run IDs, datasets, metrics, and reproduction commands.

Source Anchor

NKo/NKO-2.5-COMPLETE.md

Detected Structure

Method · Evaluation · Code Anchors · Architecture