Independence on Ocarina — manual

11.01 — Sovereign grammar

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11.01 — Sovereign grammar#

No imposed DSL. No plugin ecosystem. Extension by composition, never by inheritance.

Vision#

Holy Book quote (chapter “What is Ocarina?”):

What if delegating one’s grammar to “standards” had never been a good idea?

The real gap in E2E testing is not about imposing the “best” Newspeak.
Short answer: Ocarina is extensible.

Any verb and conjunction can be created, all governed by strict rules that keep the whole thing deeply consistent.

11.02 — Auditability in an afternoon

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11.02 — Auditability “in an afternoon”#

Operational commitment: a human must be able to read the whole framework and understand it in a few hours. No hidden magic.

Commitment#

Holy Book quote (chapter “What is Ocarina?”):

For teams constrained by security policies: the code is small, auditable in an afternoon. Nothing hidden. The only external dependencies live in the post-execution plugins and if one of them doesn’t fit, it can be removed without breaking anything else.

11.03 — Explicit refusals

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11.03 — Explicit refusals#

Synthesis of refusals scattered across the Holy Book.

Summary table#

Refusal	Reason	Reference
`async`/`await`	Selenium synchronous, Requests synchronous; readability; no point introducing an event-loop	Holy Book
pytest plugin	Independence, ISTQB fidelity	Ocarina `README`
Text DSL (Robot, Gherkin)	No translation layer	Holy Book
Reactive programming	Static scenarios, in-memory cache suffices	Holy Book
Tricks and hacks	“Teach the pattern, not the symptom”	`CLAUDE.md` ai-example
“Stylish” contributions	“It’s my car”	Holy Book
Active security tests	Functional and static only, never attacks	`CLAUDE.md` ai-example

1. Refusal of `async`/`await`#

Central quote:

Independence on Ocarina — manual

11.01 — Sovereign grammar

11.01 — Sovereign grammar#

Vision#

11.02 — Auditability in an afternoon

11.02 — Auditability “in an afternoon”#

Commitment#

11.03 — Explicit refusals

11.03 — Explicit refusals#

Summary table#

1. Refusal of async/await#

1. Refusal of `async`/`await`#