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Earlier public writing, revised locally.

Where a prior publication date is recorded, it is retained as source context; conflicting records are marked unresolved. The article copy in this local candidate remains under review and has not been republished. Each entry keeps its source context and claim labels visible.

  1. 01

    8 min read

    When the Language Can Call a Model

    A field note on HCAN's referent and effect vocabulary, Sigil's typed-delegation design, and an attributed historical report of a local model canary.

    • field-journal
    • hcan
    • sigil
    • language-design
    • agentic-systems
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  2. 02

    18 min read

    HCAN: A Condensed Symbolic Language for Human-Agent Communication

    A field-journal projection of HCAN: condensed symbolic language for human-agent communication, with worked examples, protocol benchmarks, evaluation context, and the portable envelope.

    • field-journal
    • hcan
    • condensed-symbolic-language
    • agent-grammar
    • reproducible-evaluation
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  3. 03

    14 min read

    ESS: The Thread Between Thought and Action

    A Hearthside orientation to ESS: a candidate framework for carrying provenance, meaning, and human authority across AI-mediated work.

    • field-journal
    • agentic-ai
    • knowledge-systems
    • provenance
    • prompt-engineering
    • ai-research
    • human-agency
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  4. 04

    12 min read

    A Hub That Can Explain Itself

    An eight-stage, illustrative tutorial for prototyping provenance-aware AI-assisted knowledge work, with explicit boundaries between candidate artifacts and a working system.

    • field-journal
    • provenance
    • governance
    • agentic-engineering
    • doctoral-research
    • knowledge-systems
    • human-agency
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  5. 05

    9 min read

    The Hearthside Meta-Architect

    A personal reflection on building a humane, governed workbench for nonlinear systems work.

    • field-journal
    • hearthside-meta-architect
    • neurodivergent-builders
    • exocore
    • governance
    • knowledge-work
    • agentic-engineering
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  6. 06

    8 min read

    When a Prompt Becomes a Small Charter

    A first-person proposal for contract-driven prompting: clearer inputs, boundaries, and return paths for consequential AI-assisted work.

    • field-journal
    • prompting
    • prompt-architecture
    • structured-outputs
    • human-review
    • agent-workflows
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  7. 07

    10 min read

    Every Claim Needs a Trail Back Home

    A dated case study of the Governance Lab 0.0.26 Obsidian prototype, its source and effect boundaries, and what that historical account does not establish about current runtime status.

    • field-journal
    • governance-lab
    • obsidian
    • provenance
    • agentic-engineering
    • human-gates
    • correction
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  8. 08

    10 min read

    Designing a Genre as a System

    An N=1 field note on designing a music genre as a system: the Exocore cosmic-ritual concept, four movements, CORE+TWEAK budgets, metatag grammar, lyric craft, and the contracts that make the genre.

    • field-journal
    • exocore
    • music
    • songcraft
    • suno
    • ai-music
    • cosmic-ritual
    • build-in-public
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  9. 09

    7 min read

    Prompting Became Procedure Design

    An N=1 field note on how prompting moved from clever phrasing toward procedure design: stored contracts, bounded tasks, reviewable handoffs, and one practitioner's account of keeping context across sessions.

    • field-journal
    • prompting
    • context-engineering
    • agent-workflows
    • governance
    • exocore
    • human-agency
    • build-in-public
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  10. 10

    Source status unresolved14 min read

    An Extended Mind Needs a Grammar

    A first-person N=1 field note on returnable AI-assisted work, durable records, bounded context, provenance, and human authority.

    • field-journal
    • extended-mind
    • cognitive-workbench
    • knowledge-governance
    • provenance
    • ai-workflows
    • exocore
    • human-agency
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  11. 11

    6 min read

    A Public Journal Begins With a Boundary

    A note about keeping a public record honest: sharing methods, questions, and corrections without turning private work or one person's experiment into a general claim.

    • field-journal
    • public-projection
    • research-practice
    • agency
    • n-of-1
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  12. 12

    6 min read

    What I Mean by a Cognitive Workbench

    A working account of a cognitive workbench: a person-owned place where records, decisions, and carefully bounded tools help someone find their way back to the work.

    • field-journal
    • exocore
    • cognitive-workbench
    • agency
    • governance
    • local-first
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