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Agentic Workflow 02 — Agentic Workflow & Tech Stack

Agent Context & Exploration

S5 · Instance 🔬 Research 2026-04-17

This section is the working surface for ongoing thinking about this scaffold. Modeled on the agent-context/ pattern from my other projects (cyberbaser, crosswalker): freeform research, decision logs, open problems, and exploration writing that doesn’t yet belong in the polished principles / patterns / stack layers.

Everything here starts at stratum 5 (work-tier, personal). Some entries graduate:

  • Graduates to kernel (stratum 1/2) — the insight turns out to be universal. Move the file into 01-kernel/principles/ or 01-kernel/patterns/, bump the stratum, add citations if needed.
  • Graduates to stack (stratum 2/3) — the insight applies to my opinionated toolkit. Move into 02-stack/patterns/ or a layer folder.
  • Stays here — still developing, or turns out to be cybersader-specific / situational.

The zz- prefix on subfolders sorts this section to the bottom of the tier-3 sidebar — it’s working material, not reference.

What goes here

Section titled “What goes here”
SubfolderPurpose
zz-inbox/Raw idea capture — hottest surface; quick bullets in INBOX.md or per-idea YYYY-MM-DD-topic.md files before they’ve earned a full write-up
zz-research/In-progress thinking on principles, patterns, architecture — bullets from the inbox graduate here once they’re paragraph-length
zz-log/Per-day worklog of significant scaffold changes — YYYY-MM-DD.md files appended to as work happens. The narrative thread across many commits (“what direction the day took”) rather than per-commit imperative messages.
zz-challenges/ (future — currently lives at research/zz-challenges/)Hard open problems that need exploration before they can be decided

Entries are dated (YYYY-MM-DD-topic.md for inbox/research, YYYY-MM-DD.md for log) so the evolution of work is navigable chronologically. The zz-inbox/INBOX.md running list is the one exception — append-a-bullet format, no per-entry frontmatter.

Promotion workflow

Section titled “Promotion workflow”

When an entry feels solid enough to graduate:

  1. Copy the file to its target tier/folder
  2. Update stratum: in frontmatter (5 → 1 or 2 or 3 as appropriate)
  3. Rewrite to remove tier-3 voice (neutral claims at tier 1; opinionated pattern at tier 2)
  4. Leave a stub in zz-research/ pointing to the promoted location (so history is traceable)
  5. Update the extraction direction lint (once built) if the promotion affected cross-tier references

See also

Section titled “See also”