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Field Manual

Library.

Notes on agents. The Doctrine is the canonical reference; the Dispatches are the running log; the Lineage is the progression of thinking it was distilled from. Iterated openly.

2026 · Doctrine + Dispatches + 7-volume lineage · updated 2026-06-08
The Manual · Canonical

The current, canonical read. The Doctrine is the timeless reference; the Dispatches are the dated log of what's changing. Start here.

VIII

Volume VIII — The studio, now.

The latest snapshot: the thesis, the Praxis Loop feeding mechanism, the eight-file anatomy, the twelve-agent roster in their own words (now with Mercer + Pell), the learning loops, and the live knowledge-map portal. The current state of the studio.

FM-08 · the studio, now · updated 2026-06-08

Dispatches.

The running log — dated, append-only. Plans made, experiments run, things that broke and got fixed. Newest first; each entry links to its full write-up. Currently: the Praxis Loop (live), predict-the-gate + the outage (post-mortem), and the probes (plan).

FM · Dispatches · running log · updated 2026-06-02
Lineage · The progression

Seven volumes, in the order the thinking actually happened — theory → the gaps → the research → what's running → the operating manual → the live dispatch. The Doctrine was distilled from these. Read them to watch the ideas form; none of it is current canon, and that's the point. It's the progression, not the conclusion.

I

The brain we haven't built yet.

Why current agents are cortex-only — and the four parts a working mind needs. A field manual on agent anatomy.

FM-01 · 11 plates · 2026-05-19 → revised 2026-05-24
II

How my agents differ.

A studio of specialist agents compared to how standard agents are built. What it gets you. Where it falls short. The operator loop as training wheels.

FM-02 · 6 plates · 2026-05-21 → revised 2026-05-24
III

What's missing.

The three gaps between today's agents and the next level — forward model, real wanting, cross-agent learning. What "closed" looks like for each.

FM-03 · 5 plates · 2026-05-21 → revised 2026-05-24
IV

The probes.

Research portfolio. Three probes to close the Vol. III gaps — mesh, forward model, limbic. A living planning artifact. v0 smoke test complete.

FM-04 · planning artifact · 7 plates · 2026-05-21 → revised 2026-05-24
V

Foundations.

A snapshot of what's actually running underneath the deck thinking. Habitat continuity, awake daemons, the daily dream cycle, the first forward-model experiment. The studio as it works tonight.

FM-05 · 6 plates · snapshot 2026-05-24
VI

How it works.

The operating manual. Plain language for someone walking in cold — what an agent is, the specialists, the runtime, the loops, what's automatic vs. what needs the operator, where to start reading.

FM-06 · operating manual · 9 plates · 2026-05-26
VII

Predict, then react.

A field dispatch. The forward model leaves the lab — agents guess an outcome before it happens and get scored. Built the same day an outage proved how a system goes dark unnoticed. Two threads, one lesson.

FM-07 · field dispatch · 7 plates · 2026-06-01
Genesis · The earliest sketches

Before the volumes: the four short decks the field manual grew out of, plus the prose seed of Vol. I. Where the thread starts.