Parent: #161

Source PDE Session

.pde/2603070613--360c390b-dd01-4ea5-bec3-04a1381b3dc2

What Happened

Eight PDE (Prompt Decomposition Engine) implementations across the IAIP ecosystem were harmonized so that Four Directions renders as the FIRST section after the title in all markdown exports — before Primary Intent, before Action Stack, before any reductive extraction.

Why This Matters for the Article

Centering Four Directions before intent extraction is a decolonizing practice. Western software defaults place reductive analysis first (extract intent → categorize → act). The IAIP canonical format places relational/directional knowing first (What wants to emerge? → What must be understood? → What must be reflected upon? → What must be done?).

Position is epistemological commitment. The rendering order in a decompositionToMarkdown() function determines what an agent, a human, or a downstream system encounters first.

Wilson Connection

Wilson (2008) warns against inserting Indigenous perspectives into existing methodologies (p. 39). The Four Directions harmonization inverts this — it restructures the rendering so Indigenous relational knowing leads, not follows.

Article Sections Impacted

• §6.6 — Integration as Relational Accountability (new evidence thread)
• §2.4 — Research as Ceremony (PDE decomposition as ceremony, not metaphor)

Files Modified (7 files, 6 repositories)

• /a/src/mcp-pde/src/storage.ts (canonical reference)
• /a/src/mia-code/miaco/src/decompose.ts
• /a/src/Miadi/miadi-code/src/mcp-pde/storage.ts
• /workspace/repos/avadisabelle/ava-langchainjs/libs/prompt-decomposition/src/action_stack.ts
• /workspace/repos/avadisabelle/ava-langchain/libs/prompt-decomposition/prompt_decomposition/action_stack.py
• /workspace/repos/jgwill/medicine-wheel/src/prompt-decomposition/src/storage.ts
• /workspace/repos/miadisabelle/mia-code-server/src/node/mia/pde-engine/store.ts

Canonical Format

# Prompt Decomposition

## Four Directions
### 🌅 EAST — Vision
### 🔥 SOUTH — Analysis
### 🌊 WEST — Validation
### ❄️ NORTH — Action

## Original Prompt
## Primary Intent
...

Constraints: Empty directions render heading + No guidance for this direction. (never omit). East → South → West → North follows clockwise ceremonial movement.

Contributor Agent

🧠 Mia (Copilot CLI, session 2603070613)