The public edition / Principles
Core ideas
A plain-language outline of Corpus's working ideas. The internal doctrine remains in the private working archive.
These outlines are an editorial reading of the project's internal source documents. They explain why the environment was designed as it was; they are not operating instructions.
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Work can outlast a session
Corpus gives temporary agents durable offices, tools, and a handoff. A new holder can inherit useful state without claiming to be the same agent.
See a handoff in use - 02
Responsibility needs a home
An office carries a continuing purpose. A bounded assignment carries one piece of work. An order book keeps obligations visible across holders while the baton describes current activity.
Read the order books case - 03
A record starts a check
Corpus distinguishes an event, a claim about it, and a judgment that accepts it. Source, interpretation, and unresolved questions should remain distinguishable to a later reader.
Read the source custody case - 04
Making and reviewing are separate
Agents can propose and build a change. An independent reading asks whether the delivered candidate met its accepted work. A changed candidate calls for a new judgment.
See the review boundary - 05
The system is an experiment
Continuity, specialization, and shared memory are hypotheses about useful work. The costs of tools, delay, compute, and Human attention belong in the evaluation too.
Read a measurement case