Why Kiln

Kiln in Go keeps the schema in the struct. Fields are positional. The bytes carry no field names, no tags, and no padding between Frozen fields. A tensor directory keeps the numeric bytes as the array instead of wrapping each element. A hostile count fails before the decoder allocates element storage.

gld-kilngen-go emits those structs. Each generated type has Encode, Decode, and EncodedSize. The generated code calls this library. It does not link another Kiln implementation.

This library is not the specification.

The wire

The normative description of the bytes is the Kiln specification:

https://leo-gan.github.io/gld-kiln/spec/

Go reads and writes that format. A frame hash names the schema the program already has. The directory stores dtype, shape, and a view of the payload. Scales stay bits. The reader does not dequantize them.