Journal / Field Notes

Field Notes

Rough observations, questions, sketches, clips, and provisional ideas captured close to the moment they are noticed — before interpretation hardens into explanation.

Recently Noticed

What has just entered the field?

Ana: When Retrieval Was No Longer Enough

A development Fieldnote tracing Ana from its GraphRAG-oriented beginnings through governed knowledge formation, memory, Knowledge Spaces, Domain Packs, Workbench, canonical reference integrity, and cross-canon contracts.

  • Agent Engineering
  • Knowledge Systems

Context Is Part of the Runtime

An engineering Fieldnote on what Codex operating practices reveal about context entropy, working memory, tool exposure, handoffs, skills, and the emerging discipline of engineering the runtime around an intelligent agent.

  • Governed Memory
  • Enterprise Intelligence
  • Agent Engineering
  • Context Engineering

The Executive Becomes a Systems Composer

A Fieldnote prompted by Bob Morse's experiment with Claude Code, examining what happens when deep domain judgment can increasingly become executable and what that may mean for the RPM Machine.

  • Enterprise Intelligence
  • Governed Autonomy

Still Resonating

Observations that continue to connect to current inquiry.

I Think I Finally Understand Musewoods

Something happened while putting The Book of Musewoods together that I did not expect. I thought we were documenting a system that had already become reasonably clear to me, gat...

  • Regenerative Prosperity

Paths Through the Field