Patterns

Stratum-2 patterns — named shapes that port across projects even though the content differs. Christopher-Alexander-style: “when you face problem P, the shape of a solution is S.”

Status

Scaffold directory, populated incrementally as pattern pages graduate from agent-context research.

Known candidates, not yet written:

• Temperature gradient zones (pattern form of temperature-gradient principle)
• Skills-vs-agents split (pattern form of skills-vs-agents principle)
• Meta-agent pattern (writer-per-artifact)
• Hook pattern (deterministic predicates gating context loading)
• Three-tier progressive-disclosure reads
• Johnny Decimal numeric prefixing

See also: stack-tier patterns for lower-stratum tooling-specific patterns.