Interactive Explorables

These are hands-on diagrams that let you step through how a seed agent thinks. Each one accompanies a blog essay, and many now link to related explorables so you can follow a single mechanism across diagrams.

Part 1 — Foundations
Where the seed agent begins: the keystroke, the reflex, the folder that comes alive.
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Hook Flow

How a single keystroke fans out through the seed’s reflexes.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 1 — LLMs Are Not the Agents
Part 5 — The Always-On Digital Cortex
The always-on plugin layer: the population of guards, the compaction chain, and the working-memory hierarchy.
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The Plugin Population

The always-on plugins, each minding one concern.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 5.1 — The Two-Layer Foundation
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The Compaction Chain

How the seed compacts itself across a /clear without losing its thread.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 5.3 — brain_guard
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The CLAUDE.md Hierarchy

The anchored footers and durable body that hold the seed’s working memory.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 5.7 — The CLAUDE.md Hierarchy
Part 6 — The Markov Phasic Brain
The five phases plus one cognitive organ — the OPEVC cycle the seed laps for every job.
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One Cycle, Five Compartments

The full OPEVC cycle the seed laps for every job.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.1 — Phasic Foundation
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The Discipline and the Map

How work flows through the phases and their guards.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.2 — The Discipline and the Map
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CONDENSE — The Waterfall

The three-phase ADDRESS / ARCHIVE / DEFLATE catalog that grows the brain.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.7 — CONDENSE
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Completion is Not Unfocus

The three distinct events behind a job being “done”.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.7 — CONDENSE
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How a Phase Earns its Advance

The three-family exit gate every forward hop must clear.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.8 — The Rhythm of Work
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The Life of a Job

A job from birth through cycles to completion, and the plan file that outlives it.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.10 — The Plan File
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Every Legal Move

The complete Markov transition map — every forward and recovery hop, each arrow explained on hover.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.1 — Phasic Foundation
Part 7 — The Plugin Kit
A plugin is a cell with internal organs — voices, subagents, a budget, and a lock ceremony.
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The Dual Voice Surface

voice.xml — the softest, cheapest place to customize the seed.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 7.3 — The Dual Voice Architecture
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The 80/20 Delegation Economy

Subagents and the dispatch budget that keep the main session light.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 7.6 — agents/ and the 80/20 Budget
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The Plugin Cell & Lock Ceremony

A plugin’s six-directory anatomy and the lock that keeps edits safe.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 7.8 — The Lock Ceremony
Part 8 — From Apprentice to Architect
How a seed — and its operator — matures over months of care.
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From Apprentice to Architect

How a seed (and its operator) matures: voice to hook to plugin.

Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 8.1 — Apprentice to Architect Foundation