Implementation Blueprint: Five-Stage Build Plan for VDR-LLM-Prolog

Ten papers specified the VDR-LLM-Prolog system. VDR-10 provided the engineering foundation — the IOSE system model, operational principles, and comprehensive numeric builtins. This paper specifies how to build it. The system is built in five stages, each producing a complete, testable, runnable system that handles a full lifecycle at its level of capability. Stage 1 is a toy that can create knowledge bases, assert and query facts, run Prolog rules, perform exact arithmetic, and demonstrate one training-evaluation cycle. Stage 2 adds command tokens, path addressing, scope resolution, constraints, and the scratchpad. Stage 3 adds session management, inference notebooks, Q-basis transcendentals, functional remainders, and domain-specific mathematics. Stage 4 adds operational environments, grants, filesystem and network operations, all four inference modes, and the lifecycle pipeline. Stage 5 completes the system with Docker and SSH environments, compilation, linting, feedback collection, deployment, monitoring, canary deployment, and retirement. The build uses Python 3.8 as the prototype language, leveraging the existing VDR-1 through VDR-4 codebase (~5,000 lines of tested exact arithmetic, linear algebra, and ML stack code). New code is approximately 15,500 lines across 65 modules. Every function has an IOSE declaration — inputs, outputs, side effects, and properties — which simultaneously serves as the test specification, the documentation, and the interface contract for the eventual Zig 0.15.1 production port. The central claim is that a system specified by ten papers, governed by operational engineering principles, and built in disciplined stages with IOSE declarations at every function is not a research prototype — it is an engineering project with a concrete, executable build plan.