Roadmap — Knowledge Work Foundations

Roadmap — Knowledge Work Foundations

The trunk matures through principle refinement, patterns growth, and philosophical-alignment expansion. It does not track tool releases, stack choices, or deployment work — those belong to the downstream agentic-workflow-and-tech-stack repository and its siblings.

Stability posture

• Principles are stable. They get refined (clearer phrasing, better examples, tighter first-principles justification), not restructured. New principles are rare and have a high bar: they must be derivable from attention / memory / authority at the substrate level, independent of tools.
• Patterns grow incrementally. A new universal pattern needs to demonstrate it generalizes beyond any single stack.
• Philosophical alignment expands as new lineages are traced. Each thinker or tradition added should clarify why a principle reads the way it does, not decorate it.

Principle refinement queue

• Improve the first-principles justification for each of the ten principles, working from attention + memory + authority down to their current form.
• Add worked examples that show each principle operating with zero-tier substrate (paper + pencil), then with tier-1 (digital files), then with tier-2 (LLM agents).
• Expand the tier-of-abstraction model with concrete “this is tier 0” / “this is tier 2” line-drawing examples.

Patterns queue

• SEACOW meta-framework — continue working the intent-based applications (not as a folder prescription but as a structural lens).
• Capture → Work → Output — worked examples across substrates (paper notebook, file share, agentic repo).
• Temperature gradient (hot / warm / cool / cold / frozen zones for knowledge) — expand the cross-substrate framing.

Philosophical alignment queue

• Expand the Thomistic / virtue-ethics lineage entries with concrete connections to specific principles.
• Add Alexander’s Notes on the Synthesis of Form and A Pattern Language connections.
• Add Drucker’s The Effective Executive connections.
• Add Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial connections.

Out of scope for this repo

• Tool picks, editor configs, terminal/multiplexer setup → see downstream repos
• Agent memory systems, skill/agent definitions → see agentic-workflow-and-tech-stack
• Deployment infrastructure, CI/CD for personal projects → see downstream repos
• Personal workflow instances (rebuild guides, specific projects) → stay private

How this syncs

Content is authored in a private source repo. A filtered, substrate-agnostic subset is published here on every push to the source’s main branch. See PUBLISHING on the source side (not mirrored) for the mechanism.