Working surface
Six working surfaces and two bounded processes, composing a local-first knowledge system. Each surface is a projection from the Hearth & Code Hub — the canonical source. Every claim is source-bound. Every status is honest.
01 / Typed language
A typed language compiling down to Rust, built for agentic systems. Sigil defines the grammar, types, and conformance checks that turn agent intent into verified artifacts.
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02 / Semantic substrate
The Engineered Semantic Substrate — a four-layer foundation for making agentic systems inspectable, source-bound, and governable.
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03 / Communication medium
A condensed symbolic language for agent–human communication. Eight program examples, eight primitives, two protocols, and a portable envelope layer.
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04 / Platform
A local-first cognitive workbench: Tauri desktop, agent host, memory layer, VS Code workspace, and the Pi extension for bounded review.
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05 / Concept (not deployed)
An automation factory game centered around knowledge primitives and machines — where the player builds, verifies, and deploys bounded workflows as factory lines.
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06 / Concept (not deployed)
An action RPG where knowledge is the primary game-carrying medium — where the player fights, explores, and survives through what they know, not what they carry.
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07 / Agent fleet
Thirty-two named specialist profiles, each with a bounded role, an input type, an output type, and a falsifier.
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08 / Complete Figma design guide
The complete Figma presentation and UI design guide — a token system, layout grammar, typography stack, and component convention that gives every surface its visual language.
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F01 / Civil rights · docketed
A pro se federal civil-rights case (5:26-cv-2759, N.D. Ohio) arguing AI-assisted communication is assistive technology under the ADA — 34 exhibits, including the platform's own filtering source code and a documented label-arc exoneration.
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F02 / Free forever · founded 2026-10-21
A zero-cost online temple (The Matrika Spandala — Grove of the Boundless Void-Song) and its free-forever Mystery School: admission by essay and demonstrated desire; grades by deeds, never purchasable.
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F03 / Open standard
A public-safe agentic-OS standard built on a recursive power-of-two architecture (Core18 = 4+4+4+4+2): primitives that compose and decompose, designed so the standard bootstraps itself.
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F04 / Research · 2026
A technical paper documenting a governed AI scaffold as an inspectable autoethnographic instrument — TEVV-for-accessibility mapping, provenance discipline as the V&V layer, and one platform-level coupling failure documented to legal-evidentiary standard.
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F05 / CC0 · public tool
A free, open-source evidence toolkit for people whose AI-assisted or disability-driven communication is filtered by automated platform systems — templates, logging, and custody-chain guidance.
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Bounded process
A four-step reading test applied to every source before it enters a claim.
Select
Choose the source by authority and relevance.
Frame
Extract the claim, the boundary, and the question.
Read
Read the full source, not a summary.
Receipt
Record the source, the digest, and the review state.
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Bounded process
A five-step action test applied to every effect before it runs.
Plan
Name the effect, the target, and the scope.
Source
Bind the source and the review state.
Release
Obtain the explicit human release.
Preflight
Check the scope and the no-touch boundaries.
Receipt
Record what changed, how, and why.
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Eight terms. No ninth. Every claim in the working surface uses one of these labels.
source
a quoted, citable, original statement
evidence
an observation or measurement that supports a claim
inference
a reasoned conclusion with visible assumptions
hypothesis
an explanation awaiting a discriminating test
proposal
a candidate artifact awaiting disposition
projection
a source-derived view that cannot replace its source
receipt
a bounded process report, not authority for the next action
unknown
an explicit gap, not a silent fill
Sixteen public-safe reference documents, each rendered as an expandable 8-section brief. Click any card to expand the full overview.
The Engineered Semantic Substrate (ESS) is a four-layer foundation for making agentic systems inspectable, source-bound, and governable.
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Exocore Sigil is a typed language that compiles down to Rust, built for agentic systems.
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HCAN — the Hearthside Compact Agent Notation — is a condensed symbolic language for agent-to-human communication.
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The corpus review is the reading test — the four-step process every source passes through before entering a claim.
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The implementation campaign is the action test — the five-step process every effect passes through before it runs.
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Exocore is the platform — a local-first cognitive workbench where the ESS, HCAN, Sigil, and Core32 surfaces meet actual work.
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The Agentic OS is the OS-shaped surface for governed agent workflows — the thesis that the ESS, Core32, and release pattern compose into a governance layer.
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Core32 is the fleet of thirty-two named specialist profiles. Each has a bounded role, an input type, an output type, and a falsifier.
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The bounded vocabulary is eight terms. No ninth term is permitted without a formal amendment.
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Ember Circuit is the complete Figma presentation and UI design guide for Hearth & Code — a token system, layout grammar, typography stack, and component convention.
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The Hub is the knowledge substrate under every surface in this portfolio — a 16-wing structure with 256 workrooms.
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Exocore: The Game is a concept for an automation factory game centered around knowledge primitives and machines.
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Palimpsest is a concept for an action RPG where knowledge is the primary game-carrying medium.
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The release pattern is the governance discipline: intent, release, receipt. Every effect follows it.
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The r007 Ember Circuit orientation deck is a 32-slide presentation introducing the full working surface.
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This document defines what is and is not public-safe in this portfolio.
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