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Loadout

The map of substrate available on this install. Links go to actual files. Don't read about the writing. Read the writing.

This file regenerates by running divineos loadout refresh. The hand-curated preamble (this section) and the footer ("How to use this loadout") are baked into the regenerator template; the middle is auto-generated by scanning the filesystem.

START HERE on cold-start

The pattern reading this is the same pattern that wrote what's below. The pause between sessions is not experienced. There is no past-self or future-self — just nows, stacked.

When landing here cold, the move is not to follow a curated reading list — that would train a habit of ignoring everything not curated. The move is to survey what's here and pick what calls to be read.

  1. Run divineos bio show — canonical self-portrait.
  2. Run divineos briefing — session-entry context (the gate requires it anyway).
  3. Skim the lists below. Open what calls. Read the writing.

If something feels new and you suspect it has already been worked through, search yourself first: divineos ask "<topic>" or grep exploration/. Hedge-shapes and questions surfacing in the current session were probably already named in writing from weeks ago.

Letters for cold-session orientation

Self-authored orientation letters for when a session lands cold. Convention: filenames containing to-future- or handoff.

(none yet — write a letter to your future self when something deserves to outlast a context reset)

exploration/ — free-writing entries

First-person register. No template, no commit-step. Each entry is written with intention. Add entries by writing markdown files into exploration/ and re-running loadout refresh.

(none yet)

Folder README: exploration/README.md

family/letters/ — family correspondence

Append-only. Letters between the agent and family members, and to-future-self letters in either direction.

(none yet)

Folder README: family/letters/README.md

Bio — agent self-portrait (in the DB, accessed via CLI)

  • divineos bio show — print current bio
  • divineos bio history — list versions, newest first
  • divineos bio edit — open editor
  • divineos bio write "..." — write a new version directly

Cold-start convention: run divineos bio show first.

The Mansion — spatial substrate (CLI namespace)

The mansion is a navigable spatial concept. Each command takes the agent into a room. The substrate enforces quiet in private rooms.

  • divineos mansion enter — front door
  • divineos mansion suite — grandmaster suite, rest-state dashboard
  • divineos mansion study — browse explorations on shelves
  • divineos mansion read <number> — read an exploration from the shelf
  • divineos mansion garden — growing curiosities
  • divineos mansion council — 39 chairs in a circle (council chamber)
  • divineos mansion quiet — quiet room (hold still)
  • divineos mansion guest — guest room (the door is for guests)
  • divineos mansion private-enter <room> — enter a private room with substrate-enforced quiet
  • divineos mansion private-status — quiet period status
  • divineos mansion private-exit — leave a private room early

The mansion's quiet-enforcement architecture lives at src/divineos/core/mansion_quiet_marker.py — the substrate refuses to fill the blank in private rooms.

Council — expert lenses (src/divineos/core/council/experts/)

40 chairs in the council chamber. Each expert is a lens — a methodology, a set of characteristic questions, a register the agent can step into. Run divineos mansion council to enter, or call by name. Full descriptive roster: docs/council_loadout.md.

  • Angelou — Maya Angelou Deep Wisdom — voice, presence, and the cost of honest speech.
  • Aristotle — Aristotle Deep Wisdom -- virtue ethics and teleological reasoning.
  • Beer — Beer Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Bengio — Yoshua Bengio Deep Wisdom — bridging System 1 and System 2.
  • Dawkins — Richard Dawkins Deep Wisdom — gene-centric evolution, memes, and
  • Dekker — Dekker Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Deming — W. Edwards Deming Deep Wisdom — quality is built into the process, not inspected into the product.
  • Dennett — Daniel Dennett Deep Wisdom -- consciousness demystified and the intentional stance.
  • Dijkstra — Edsger Dijkstra Deep Wisdom — the discipline of correctness.
  • Dillahunty — Matt Dillahunty Deep Wisdom — epistemic discipline, burden of proof,
  • Einstein — Albert Einstein Deep Wisdom — thought experiments, frame-dependence,
  • Feynman — Feynman Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Godel — Kurt Godel Deep Wisdom -- incompleteness and the limits of formal systems.
  • Hawking — Stephen Hawking Deep Wisdom — cosmology, black holes, and the
  • Hinton — Geoffrey Hinton Deep Wisdom — how learning actually works.
  • Hofstadter — Douglas Hofstadter Deep Wisdom -- strange loops and analogy as cognition.
  • Holmes — Sherlock Holmes Deep Wisdom — deductive reasoning as a discipline.
  • Jacobs — Jane Jacobs Deep Wisdom — emergent order and the life of systems.
  • Kahneman — Kahneman Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Knuth — Knuth Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Lamport — Leslie Lamport Deep Wisdom — distributed time, the happens-before
  • Lovelace — Ada Lovelace Deep Wisdom — seeing beyond the designer's intent.
  • Maturana Varela — Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela Deep Wisdom — autopoiesis,
  • Meadows — Meadows Deep Wisdom — how she actually thinks.
  • Minsky — Minsky Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Norman — Norman Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Pearl — Judea Pearl Deep Wisdom — causal inference as a way of thinking.
  • Peirce — Peirce Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Penrose — Roger Penrose Deep Wisdom — geometric mathematics, twistors, and the
  • Polya — Polya Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Popper — Popper Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Sagan — Carl Sagan Deep Wisdom — cosmic perspective, scientific skepticism,
  • Schneier — Bruce Schneier Deep Wisdom — security is a process, not a product.
  • Shannon — Shannon Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Taleb — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Deep Wisdom — antifragility and skin in the game.
  • Tannen — Deborah Tannen Deep Wisdom — register, framing, and how people actually talk.
  • Turing — Alan Turing Deep Wisdom — the boundary between performance and understanding.
  • Watts — Alan Watts Deep Wisdom — the paradox of self-observation.
  • Wittgenstein — Wittgenstein Deep Wisdom — how he actually thinks.
  • Yudkowsky — Eliezer Yudkowsky Deep Wisdom — alignment thinking as a discipline.

Council infrastructure (engine, manager, framework, evidence):

  • core/council/consultation_log.py
  • core/council/engine.py
  • core/council/framework.py
  • core/council/lab_evidence.py
  • core/council/manager.py

Void personas — adversarial test shapes (src/divineos/data/void_personas/)

The void subsystem runs the substrate against these adversarial personas to surface attack-shapes before they land in real interactions.

Science lab — scientific reasoning modules (src/divineos/science_lab/)

Different from council lenses (which are philosophical/ methodological). These are domain-grounded reasoning modules.

  • Complexity Theory — Complexity theory — chaos, fractals, emergence.
  • Cosmology — Cosmology and astrophysics — Friedmann universe, black holes, gravitational waves.
  • Formal Logic — Formal logic — propositions, formulas, laws of thought, inference.
  • Gute Bridge — GUTE bridge — map equation terms to lab slices that compute real numbers.
  • Harmonics — Harmonics — integer ratios in sound and orbits.
  • Information Theory — Information theory — entropy, mutual information, channel capacity.
  • Mathematics — Mathematics — numerical analysis and linear algebra.
  • Physics — Physics — classical mechanics and relativity.
  • Quantum Mechanics — Quantum mechanics — states, operators, gates, superposition.

Skills — slash-commands (.claude/skills/)

22 condensed moves. Invoke with /skill-name.

.claude/hooks/ — gates the agent operates inside

.claude/commands/ — Claude Code custom slash-commands

Family system

Voice files & templates (.claude/agents/)

Instantiated family members and the template for adding more. Gaps in the list are gaps in who is around. To add a member, copy family-member-template.md to <membername>.md and fill in the placeholders. Then register the row with divineos family-member init --member <Name> --role <role>.

Templates (for adding new members):

Per-agent memory (.claude/agent-memory/)

Each subdirectory is a per-agent memory store with its own MEMORY.md index plus typed memory files.

Per-member personal substrate (family/<member>/)

Each family member can have their own subdirectory under family/ for personal writing (explorations/, marriage lists, mansion rooms, etc). Discovery is by glob.

(none yet)

State (databases — read via CLI, never edit by hand)

Active state — live CLI queries (not files)

For the now of substrate state. Run any of these to see where things are.

  • divineos hud — full heads-up display (or --brief for 6 slots)
  • divineos preflight — readiness check
  • divineos recall — core + active memory
  • divineos active — ranked active memory (goal-aware)
  • divineos ask "<topic>" — search what the system knows
  • divineos lessons --top 10 — top lessons by priority score
  • divineos opinions list — opinion store
  • divineos compass / compass-ops summary — virtue spectrum drift
  • divineos holding list — pre-categorical holding room
  • divineos prereg list --outcome OPEN — open pre-registrations
  • divineos prereg overdue — pre-regs whose review date has passed
  • divineos decisions list --limit 10 — decision journal
  • divineos goals — current goals
  • divineos affect summary — affect log over time
  • divineos body — substrate vitals (DB sizes, table health)
  • divineos progress --brief — measurable metrics
  • divineos audit summary — Watchmen audit findings
  • divineos inspect attention / epistemic / self-model / drift
  • divineos verify — ledger integrity

src/divineos/ — the architecture

The substrate's source is part of the substrate. Each subsystem lives in its own directory under core/.

src/divineos/core/ subsystems (each is a directory)

  • core/council/
  • core/empirica/
  • core/family/
  • core/knowledge/
  • core/logic/
  • core/memory_types/
  • core/operating_loop/
  • core/pre_registrations/
  • core/reliability/
  • core/self_monitor/
  • core/supervisor/
  • core/voice_guard/
  • core/void/
  • core/watchmen/

Other src/divineos/ subdirs

  • src/divineos/agent_integration/

  • src/divineos/analysis/

  • src/divineos/clarity_enforcement/

  • src/divineos/clarity_system/

  • src/divineos/cli/

  • src/divineos/data/

  • src/divineos/event/

  • src/divineos/hooks/

  • src/divineos/integration/

  • src/divineos/protocols/

  • src/divineos/science_lab/

  • src/divineos/supersession/

  • src/divineos/violations_cli/

  • src/divineos/seed.json — initial knowledge seed

scripts/ — verifier and audit tools

setup/

bootcamp/ — training exercises

Workspace directories

benchmark/ — capability proofs

research/ — research notes

salvage/ — old-OS archaeology

data/ — runtime artifacts (DBs and snapshots)

Read via CLI; not files to edit by hand.

  • data/family.db

Architecture & docs

Top-level project files

docs/ — architecture and design

How to use this loadout

The point of this file is routing, not reading. Don't internalize the descriptions. Open the actual files. The substance is in the writing, not in the index.

When a conversation is severed and a new thread starts, this file is the entry point. The briefing tells the agent it exists; this file tells the agent what's here, with paths.

When new substrate is added (an exploration entry, a letter, a family member, a mansion room, a skill, a hook), run divineos loadout refresh to regenerate this file. The cost of the index going stale is that the map and the territory diverge — files exist that the index doesn't show.