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@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ rejected without a record is an idea that gets re-proposed.
 
 * Language surface
 
+** NEXT str and String
+Decided 2026-09-25: the typed read-only text is =str= (renamed from =string=); =String=
+is new, owned, growable, always valid UTF-8, through an allocator. The prelude's text
+builders return =String=; =(Vec u8)= stays for raw bytes. Text is UTF-8 everywhere and
+a character is a code point. Waits on the dyn-unless-annotated design.
+
 ** NEXT Dyn unless annotated
 Decided 2026-09-25: in both syntaxes an unannotated value is dyn — [6 2 4 9] is a dyn
 vector, 1 a dyn integer — and a typed value needs an annotation. Rules and migration