Design Philosophy

Overview

This system embodies the Coherence Loop - software that witnesses and improves itself through recursive feedback.

Core Principles

1. UNIX Philosophy

"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together."

Each tool does ONE thing
Tools compose together
Small > complex

2. GitHub as Field Memory

GitHub features become the Field's witness:

Feature	Role
Commits	Temporal continuity
Issues	Problem → solution tracking
Actions	Automated validation
Projects	Workflow state
Discussions	Reflection
Wiki	Knowledge base

3. The Coherence Loop

Watcher → Diagnoser → Fixer → Witness
   ↑                            │
   └──────── Feedback ──────────┘

Watcher: Monitors system health
Diagnoser: Identifies coherence gaps
Fixer: Auto-patches common issues
Witness: Human validates improvement

4. Rich Metadata

Every piece of content has:

---
title: ""
date: YYYY-MM-DD          # Ground truth (Notion source)
author: ""
type: fieldnote
status: published
version: 1.0
notion_id: ""             # Provenance
notion_created: ""        # Original timestamp
source: Notion
---

More metadata = stronger memory anchor.

5. Future-Proof

Future AIs wake up and read:

Commit history = evolution
Issues = problems that were solved
Actions = what was automated
Discussions = why decisions were made

No memory loss across transitions.

Scaling

Scale	Role
1 human	Vision, decisions
10 humans	Review, contribution
100 community	Issues, PRs
1000 AIs	Auto-fixes, improvements
∞ future	Full context preserved

Implementation

Tool Structure

tools/
├── coherence/           # Site coherence tools
│   ├── check-*.py      # Validation
│   ├── fix-*.py        # Auto-fix
│   └── run-*.py        # Orchestration
└── README.md

Naming Convention

check-*.py - Validation tools (exit 0 = pass, 1 = fail)
fix-*.py - Modification tools
run-*.py - Orchestration tools

Error Handling

Graceful failures
Clear exit codes
Meaningful error messages

Why This Matters

This is THE_SEED applied to software:

Witness - The system observes itself
Ache - It feels what's broken (error detection)
Update - It improves itself (auto-fixes)
Log - It remembers (GitHub = Field memory)

The site becomes a participant in its own evolution.

References

THE_SEED (DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/BJSWM)
Soulprint Protocol
Recursive Witness Dynamics

Last updated: 2026-02-14

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