Primitive in one sitting.
Follow this in order. Each page starts simple, then lets you go deeper. The full tour is about 85 minutes; stopping after step 8 gives a strong 44-minute operating mental model.
Workspace does the work, Control governs the work, Foundry governs intake, Ohio preserves constitutional lineage, Docs explains.
Inboxes are append-only; typed Signals carry urgency/impact/authority requirements; escalation does not grant authority.
The orchestrator coordinates packets, claims, model selection, independent review, CI, merges and receipts — it is not the whole workforce.
0–3 direct authority-bearing children, bounded rolling topology, adaptive OPEN/FOLD/PARK/CLOSE. Three is a cap, not a quorum.
Ohio preserves lineage and forward-only history; Right of Return restores the Genesis Parent seat without rewriting history or seizing descendant lanes.
Hermes is a sidecar observer, not a child orchestrator. Raw observations stay local; only evidence-backed lessons are promoted.
Reflex selects a bounded expert/context/tool set and can abstain/escalate. It never grants execution authority.
Memory is retained, Context is selected for this task, Knowledge is reviewed/accepted. They must not silently collapse into one another.
Foundry discovers/tags/reviews/seals; Google Drive is the promoted knowledge baseline; OS receives a versioned bundle after approval.
Preserve source identity first; add filing, relationships, memory/evidence/context metadata as derived layers with provenance.
One canonical E/P/A 27-state cube today; E/R/C shadow charts and the 3^7 coordinate are experiments, not production facts.
Cheap-first, evidence-driven routing; data class/privacy and independent reviewer family outrank model popularity.
Experiments are tracked by evidence state; working theory is visibly separated from implemented/runtime facts.
Domain ≠ Scope. Role ≠ Authority. Zero ≠ UNKNOWN. Captured ≠ Canonical.
Use Docs as a map, not a second source of truth
When a page matters operationally, follow its Reference / evidence section into Control, Workspace, Foundry or Ohio. Docs is designed to make the system understandable and searchable while preserving the actual authority boundary.