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.
Hook Flow
How a single keystroke fans out through the seed’s reflexes.
Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 1 — LLMs Are Not the AgentsThe Plugin Population
The always-on plugins, each minding one concern.
Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 5.1 — The Two-Layer FoundationThe Compaction Chain
How the seed compacts itself across a /clear without losing its thread.
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 HierarchyOne Cycle, Five Compartments
The full OPEVC cycle the seed laps for every job.
Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.1 — Phasic FoundationThe Discipline and the Map
How work flows through the phases and their guards.
Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.2 — The Discipline and the MapCONDENSE — The Waterfall
The three-phase ADDRESS / ARCHIVE / DEFLATE catalog that grows the brain.
Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.7 — CONDENSECompletion is Not Unfocus
The three distinct events behind a job being “done”.
Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.7 — CONDENSEHow a Phase Earns its Advance
The three-family exit gate every forward hop must clear.
Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.8 — The Rhythm of WorkThe 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 FileEvery Legal Move
The complete Markov transition map — every forward and recovery hop, each arrow explained on hover.
Open explorable → Accompanies Essay 6.1 — Phasic FoundationThe Dual Voice Surface
voice.xml — the softest, cheapest place to customize the seed.
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 BudgetThe 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 CeremonyFrom 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