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Intention

IAIP Research
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Intention

  • You are articulating a need for a relational structure that foregrounds relational accountability and values from an Indigenous paradigm, not just a technical ontology or knowledge graph in the Western sense.[1]
  • You want this recording to become part of a future agentic ecosystem that can interpret such material, decompose it into explicit and implicit tasks/questions, and act autonomously while maintaining alignment with your vision and values.[1]
  • You are using the half-awake “spirit world” state as a source of insight and want the system to respect that mode of knowing, not flatten it into mere “content.”[1]
  • You are intentionally circling topics (knowledge graph, ontologies, Research Is Ceremony, medicine wheel, coordinating agent) as a way of land-based exploration and want that circling pattern itself to be recognized as a meaningful epistemic structure, not noise or redundancy.[1]

Core observations

  • Long-context models with 1M-token windows still have a nontrivial probability (e.g., ~25–30% for cheaper models, ~25% residual error even for better ones) of missing an “important line” among ~50,000 remembered lines, which can send the generative trajectory down an undesirable branch.[1]
  • You use the tree/pruning metaphor: early misrecognition of what is important leads the model to “grow” branches (lines of discourse, code, design) that look fine locally but produce fruit that does not match your values or original vision when revisited days later.[1]
  • You notice that many long sessions that feel good in the moment later read as “a mess of good words” with little alignment to your deeper intentions, and this is a structural issue, not just prompt quality.[1]
  • There is a distinction between explicit requests you make to agents and implicit ones, and you already have (or imagine) an engine that decomposes and lists implicit asks, which you see as crucial for better alignment.[1]

Limits and design tensions you are flagging

  • You cannot rely on any single agent’s per-message salience mechanism to always preserve the truly important lines; you see a need for multi-level coordination (local agents plus a coordinating agent) with its own notion of importance and complexity.[1]
  • You do not yet have a functioning coordinating agent that can aggregate across sessions (e.g., recordings like this, previous work, GitHub state) and steer other agents; this is felt as a concrete infrastructural gap in your current practice.[1]
  • You recognize that you lack a clear “place” in your current system where these recordings belong and can be ingested in a way that preserves their structure (dream/land exploration, circling, Research Is Ceremony context) instead of reducing them to flat text tasks.[1]
  • You are unsure how to spatially or temporally “segment” pruning or importance decisions (not at every message, but at some other rhythm or granularity), which suggests a need for new temporal/logical units beyond simple turns.[1]

Desired agent behaviors

  • Agents should be able to:
    • Autonomously advance work while you sleep, including reading from GitHub, understanding dependencies, and progressing tasks.[1]
    • Decide when it is appropriate to call you back into the loop, and in what modality (UI design, database schema work, protocol design, etc.), based on your skills and competencies.[1]
    • Interpret recordings like this as multi-layered input: situating them in ongoing projects, extracting questions, identifying important lines, and updating shared context (e.g., the Research Is Ceremony frame, medicine wheel visualization, knowledge graph/ontology design).[1]
  • A coordinating agent should receive summaries from working agents, identify what is important, track levels of complexity, and mediate between your explicit and implicit asks.[1]

Epistemic and methodological anchors

  • Research Is Ceremony is a required context, not an optional citation: you want systems to “gather” that context before assuming they can move forward on the Indigenous knowledge / ontology / methodology questions.[1]
  • The medicine wheel visualization and associated tools are early prototypes of how you want knowledge graph/ontology representations to be grounded in Indigenous relational models, rather than generic graph schemas.[1]
  • You frame your exploration as akin to being on the land: going out, circling, returning to a point (knowledge graph, ontologies, Sean Wilson), each time bringing back more of what you know; you want this cyclical pattern to inform how sessions are decomposed and connected.[1]

Structural decomposition of this recording (what you seem to want systems to eventually extract)

  • Context about model behavior
    • Long-context capabilities and their error margins.
    • Tree/pruning analogy for trajectory and value alignment failure.
  • System design questions
    • How to architect agents plus a coordinating agent that respect importance under uncertainty.
    • How and when agents summarize and report to the coordinator.
    • How to model explicit vs implicit tasks/questions arising in your inputs.
  • Indigenous-anchored epistemic requirements
    • Incorporate Research Is Ceremony as foundational context before proceeding on certain threads.
    • Use medicine wheel and relational accountability as structuring metaphors/models for the knowledge graph.
  • Human–agent relationship
    • How agents recognize your skills and present appropriate tooling (UI, database design, protocol work).
    • How they time and frame interactions so that your contribution is honored and effectively used.
  • Meta-intent for this kind of recording
    • To serve as future training/conditioning material for the coordinating agent and associated tools.
    • To test how well systems can preserve and act on “important lines” that emerge in liminal, dream-adjacent states and iterative circling.

If you want, next step I can take this same material and prototype a concrete schema for:

  • what a “unit” of importance looks like here,
  • how a coordinating agent would store and update it,
  • and how the Research Is Ceremony / medicine wheel context could be encoded as gating conditions on certain types of autonomous action.

Sources

[1] file-1.m4a https://ppl-ai-file-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/web/direct-files/attachments/16038376/82462337-6c22-464c-9534-76640e6f1bed/file-1.m4a