Marketing AI companies are selling you a lie, and it's usually hiding in the "creative intelligence." Open source? Who verified the data. Never read the spec docs? Then you don't know if it's good or if it just looks good. 80% of teams I talk to make the same mistake.

If you aren’t building with an ontology then you are likely wasting time in Claude Code and Codex. We’ve been building skills and memory systems all wrong…

monty vitals rolls everything up. each repo gets a verdict, tended, drifting, or untended, and every reason comes with the command that fixes it. i validated it against eight real repos in eight languages. flask reads tended. most repos will not.

a design token is just a word whose meaning happens to be a value, so the same machinery covers styles. point it at a tailwind repo and the theme becomes the vocabulary. it ingested shadcn/ui's own theme as 52 tokens with one command.

the drift that worried me most is two words holding one meaning, because "session" and "thread" defined into the same idea pass every check ever written. i added a 30mb embedding model that runs locally in milliseconds. when i defined "dialogue" next to "thread" as a test, it caught them at 0.74.

renames actually propagate now. i rename a concept once, a ledger records why, and one command rewrites the codebase by syntax tree token so strings and comments stay put. other repos inherit the vocabulary from a git url and get the exact migration command on their next pull.

my favorite part is the guard. it lints an agent's edit before the file ever saves. claude names a class after a word i retired, the edit bounces with the current word inside the error, claude applies it and retries. watching an agent get corrected mid-edit is weirdly satisfying.

so, montology. your codebase's vocabulary in a sqlite database, checked against every named thing in the code. python, typescript, go, rust, java, ruby, elixir, c, c++. define a word once and nothing gets named against it.

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