
Hierarchy Can Be Temporary
A task can use hierarchy, delegation, and specialist roles without turning them into permanent agents. Persistence is a separate architecture decision.
An archive of decisions, failures, changes, and shipped work. The record stays useful by keeping the sequence—and the limits—visible.

A task can use hierarchy, delegation, and specialist roles without turning them into permanent agents. Persistence is a separate architecture decision.

AI assistance should be visible, but contribution, judgment, evidence authority, and accountability still need separate attribution.

A practical test for when an AI result can stay in the transcript and when it needs its own identity, state, revisions, permissions, and actions.

An evaluation stops being harmless test scaffolding when its environment can translate model behavior into real effects.

A reconstructed decision note on why Dream Atlas separated its public archive, noindex workspace, and mutable demo into distinct authority lanes.

A reconstructed Liminal Tarot release incident about stale native assets, candidate identity, and why a green source tree cannot prove what reached a device.

A reconstructed account of how Dream Atlas moved specialization out of permanent agent identities and into capability contracts, workflows, and explicit state owners.
A minimal archive-initialization note confirming that the Dream Atlas logs route and content system are operational.