{
  "schema_version": "0.1",
  "updated": "2026-09-07",
  "purpose": "A public semantic index for navigating Agalmic Research at multiple levels of abstraction without equating visibility with commitment.",
  "layers": [
    "orientation",
    "direction",
    "research-object",
    "evidence",
    "method"
  ],
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    {
      "id": "orientation:meta-aim",
      "title": "The goal is not more ideas",
      "kind": "research-note",
      "layer": "orientation",
      "commitment": "active",
      "meaningful": true,
      "topics": [
        "adjacent-possible",
        "cognitive-tools",
        "selection",
        "realization"
      ],
      "status": "Research Note 001",
      "summary": "The programme-level aim: improve the distributed capacity to make worthwhile possibilities reachable, recognizable, testable and realizable.",
      "direction": "Use cognitive abundance to expand reachable worthwhile futures rather than maximizing idea output.",
      "href": "/notes/the-goal-is-not-more-ideas/",
      "related": [
        "direction:effective-adjacent-possible",
        "method:possibility-portfolio",
        "direction:economics-epistemic-abundance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "orientation:programme",
      "title": "Research programme",
      "kind": "overview",
      "layer": "orientation",
      "commitment": "none",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "agalmic-economics",
        "epistemic-abundance",
        "distributed-discovery",
        "representation"
      ],
      "status": "Living overview",
      "summary": "The current research map, with antecedents and remaining questions kept visible.",
      "direction": "Orient before descending into papers, notes, methods and evidence.",
      "href": "/research/",
      "related": [
        "orientation:meta-aim",
        "method:lineage-register"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction:effective-adjacent-possible",
      "title": "Cognitive tools for expanding the effective adjacent possible",
      "kind": "possibility",
      "layer": "direction",
      "commitment": "active",
      "meaningful": true,
      "topics": [
        "adjacent-possible",
        "innovation-search",
        "cognitive-tools",
        "frontier-expansion"
      ],
      "status": "Active Frontier",
      "summary": "Develop the meta aim as a lineage-grounded synthesis connecting search, recognition, validation and realization to expansion of reachable possibilities.",
      "direction": "Turn the meta aim into discriminating questions and usable selection criteria.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "orientation:meta-aim",
        "object:ideas-options",
        "direction:representation-nemosyne"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction:distributed-discovery",
      "title": "Distributed discovery provenance",
      "kind": "possibility",
      "layer": "direction",
      "commitment": "active",
      "meaningful": true,
      "topics": [
        "human-ai",
        "provenance",
        "discovery",
        "credit",
        "epistemic-authority"
      ],
      "status": "Active Frontier",
      "summary": "Represent problem framing, generation, recognition, validation, integration and realization without collapsing novelty, priority, contribution or authority.",
      "direction": "Model one real discovery episode end-to-end using standards-first provenance and identify the genuine gaps.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "evidence:discovery-attribution-review",
        "method:provenance",
        "handoff:distributed-discovery-provenance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction:economics-epistemic-abundance",
      "title": "Economics of epistemic abundance: formalize shifting constraints",
      "kind": "possibility",
      "layer": "direction",
      "commitment": "active",
      "meaningful": true,
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "epistemic-abundance",
        "scarcity",
        "bottlenecks",
        "ai"
      ],
      "status": "Active Frontier",
      "summary": "Test whether abundance shocks produce useful comparative statics beyond familiar complementarity, bottleneck and attention results.",
      "direction": "Construct the smallest formal model that can falsify or sharply narrow the Displaced Scarcity Hypothesis.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "evidence:displaced-scarcity-review",
        "handoff:displaced-scarcity-formalization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction:epistemic-handoff-pilot",
      "title": "Epistemic handoff pilot",
      "kind": "possibility",
      "layer": "direction",
      "commitment": "option",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "epistemic-handoff",
        "knowledge-brokering",
        "expertise",
        "validation"
      ],
      "status": "Preserved option",
      "summary": "Test whether claim-sensitive, provenance-preserving routing improves evaluation of low-authority contributions.",
      "direction": "Design a tiny reviewer pilot before building platform machinery.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "object:epistemic-handoff",
        "handoff:epistemic-handoff-pilot"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction:expert-attention",
      "title": "Allocation of scarce expert attention",
      "kind": "possibility",
      "layer": "direction",
      "commitment": "option",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "attention",
        "expertise",
        "markets",
        "selection",
        "institutions"
      ],
      "status": "Preserved option",
      "summary": "Study how specialist evaluation can scale when candidate production outgrows expert review capacity without creating new filter monopolies.",
      "direction": "Map existing mechanisms before proposing a new market or ranking system.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "direction:epistemic-handoff-pilot",
        "evidence:idea-portfolio-review"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction:what-abundant-next",
      "title": "What should we make abundant next?",
      "kind": "possibility",
      "layer": "direction",
      "commitment": "option",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "energy",
        "compute",
        "knowledge",
        "capabilities"
      ],
      "status": "Preserved option",
      "summary": "Ask which upstream forms of abundance most strongly expand downstream feasible capability sets.",
      "direction": "Complete lineage review across growth, general-purpose technologies, capability theory and energy economics before drafting claims.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "direction:economics-epistemic-abundance",
        "orientation:meta-aim"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction:representation-nemosyne",
      "title": "Representation as discovery through Nemosyne/Moneta",
      "kind": "possibility",
      "layer": "direction",
      "commitment": "option",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "representation",
        "nemosyne",
        "moneta",
        "recognition",
        "visual-analytics"
      ],
      "status": "Preserved option",
      "summary": "Use representation changes as an empirical test of whether tools can enlarge what analysts can notice and act upon.",
      "direction": "Connect the adjacent-possible framing only after representation improvements are empirically demonstrated.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "direction:effective-adjacent-possible"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction:human-scale-horizon",
      "title": "Human-Scale Epistemic Horizon",
      "kind": "possibility",
      "layer": "direction",
      "commitment": "parked",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "epistemic-opacity",
        "verification",
        "future",
        "ai"
      ],
      "status": "Parked",
      "summary": "Explore institutions for reliable knowledge whose justification no individual human can survey end-to-end.",
      "direction": "Keep parked until nearer-term verification work produces concrete mechanisms or evidence.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "object:authorial-capacity",
        "direction:distributed-discovery"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "object:authorial-capacity",
      "title": "The Authorial Capacity Constraint",
      "kind": "working-paper",
      "layer": "research-object",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": true,
      "topics": [
        "epistemic-stewardship",
        "metacognition",
        "defensibility",
        "human-ai"
      ],
      "status": "Working Paper 001 · v0.4",
      "summary": "A lineage-corrected synthesis of the gap between machine-assisted artefact performance and human comprehension, defence and accountability.",
      "direction": "Use as a constraint on how the rest of the programme presents machine-assisted claims.",
      "href": "/publications/authorial-capacity-constraint/",
      "related": [
        "object:epistemic-handoff",
        "handoff:authorial-capacity-measurement",
        "method:provenance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "object:epistemic-handoff",
      "title": "Epistemic Handoff",
      "kind": "draft",
      "layer": "research-object",
      "commitment": "option",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "epistemic-handoff",
        "knowledge-brokering",
        "absorptive-capacity",
        "authority"
      ],
      "status": "Draft · v0.3",
      "summary": "A narrow proposal for routing a candidate toward missing epistemic capability while preserving contribution provenance and claim status.",
      "direction": "Test the handoff as an operational protocol rather than another vocabulary for knowledge brokerage.",
      "href": "/drafts/epistemic-handoff/",
      "related": [
        "direction:epistemic-handoff-pilot",
        "evidence:epistemic-handoff-review"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "object:ideas-options",
      "title": "Ideas Are Options, Not Obligations",
      "kind": "research-note",
      "layer": "research-object",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "selection",
        "portfolio",
        "attention",
        "personal-practice"
      ],
      "status": "Research Note 002",
      "summary": "A personal operating rule for preserving idea abundance while protecting scarce commitment capacity.",
      "direction": "Use as the behavioural bridge between the Memory Palace and the Active Frontier.",
      "href": "/notes/ideas-are-options-not-obligations/",
      "related": [
        "method:possibility-portfolio",
        "orientation:meta-aim"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:discovery-attribution-review",
      "title": "Literature Review: Discovery Attribution in Human-AI Science",
      "kind": "literature-review",
      "layer": "evidence",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "human-ai",
        "discovery",
        "priority",
        "provenance"
      ],
      "status": "Deep prior-art review",
      "summary": "Maps computational discovery, collective discovery, priority, validation and machine novelty antecedents.",
      "direction": "Constrains novelty claims around distributed discovery.",
      "href": "https://github.com/TsatsuAmable/agalmicresearch/blob/main/docs/LITERATURE_REVIEW_DISCOVERY_ATTRIBUTION.md",
      "related": [
        "direction:distributed-discovery"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:epistemic-handoff-review",
      "title": "Literature Review: Epistemic Handoff, Knowledge Brokering and Uptake",
      "kind": "literature-review",
      "layer": "evidence",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "knowledge-brokering",
        "absorptive-capacity",
        "intermediaries",
        "expertise"
      ],
      "status": "Deep prior-art review",
      "summary": "Maps absorptive capacity, transfer stickiness, brokers, intermediaries, transactive memory and expert-evaluation bottlenecks.",
      "direction": "Keeps handoff work anchored to mature knowledge-transfer traditions.",
      "href": "https://github.com/TsatsuAmable/agalmicresearch/blob/main/docs/LITERATURE_REVIEW_EPISTEMIC_HANDOFF.md",
      "related": [
        "object:epistemic-handoff",
        "direction:epistemic-handoff-pilot"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:displaced-scarcity-review",
      "title": "Literature Review: Displaced Scarcity and Shifting Bottlenecks",
      "kind": "literature-review",
      "layer": "evidence",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "scarcity",
        "bottlenecks",
        "complements"
      ],
      "status": "Deep prior-art review",
      "summary": "Maps limiting factors, complements, attention, value capture, idea processing, induced innovation and recent AI-abundance economics.",
      "direction": "Forces the Displaced Scarcity Hypothesis toward formal conditions or retirement.",
      "href": "https://github.com/TsatsuAmable/agalmicresearch/blob/main/docs/LITERATURE_REVIEW_DISPLACED_SCARCITY.md",
      "related": [
        "direction:economics-epistemic-abundance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:idea-portfolio-review",
      "title": "Literature Review: Idea Portfolios and Selection",
      "kind": "literature-review",
      "layer": "evidence",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "selection",
        "portfolio",
        "real-options",
        "exploration-exploitation"
      ],
      "status": "Prior-art review",
      "summary": "Grounds the Possibility Portfolio in established exploration/exploitation, portfolio, real-options and idea-management research.",
      "direction": "Prevents the selection machinery from masquerading as a newly invented management theory.",
      "href": "https://github.com/TsatsuAmable/agalmicresearch/blob/main/docs/LITERATURE_REVIEW_IDEA_PORTFOLIOS_AND_SELECTION.md",
      "related": [
        "method:possibility-portfolio"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "method:possibility-portfolio",
      "title": "Possibility Portfolio & Active Frontier",
      "kind": "protocol",
      "layer": "method",
      "commitment": "active",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "selection",
        "portfolio",
        "attention",
        "frontier"
      ],
      "status": "Experimental operating method · v0.1",
      "summary": "Preserve ideas cheaply as options while limiting substantial commitments to a small Active Frontier.",
      "direction": "Use every session to update the portfolio without silently expanding active work.",
      "href": "/frontier/",
      "related": [
        "object:ideas-options",
        "method:memory-palace"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "method:memory-palace",
      "title": "Memory Palace Protocol",
      "kind": "protocol",
      "layer": "method",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "provenance",
        "memory-palace",
        "research-process",
        "roads-not-taken"
      ],
      "status": "Operating protocol · v0.3",
      "summary": "Capture the topology of discovery, including branches, evidence, decisions, attribution, search boundaries and roads not taken.",
      "direction": "Preserve abundance without requiring every preserved branch to remain cognitively active.",
      "href": "/memory-palace-protocol/",
      "related": [
        "method:possibility-portfolio",
        "method:provenance",
        "handoff:terminus"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "method:lineage-register",
      "title": "Intellectual Lineage & Novelty Register",
      "kind": "register",
      "layer": "method",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "prior-art",
        "novelty",
        "lineage",
        "research-integrity"
      ],
      "status": "Living register · v0.3",
      "summary": "Separates established antecedents, rediscovery, synthesis, extension and unassessed novelty.",
      "direction": "Treat prior art as infrastructure and move the research boundary instead of defending local terminology.",
      "href": "/lineage/",
      "related": [
        "method:memory-palace",
        "orientation:programme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "method:provenance",
      "title": "Standards-first provenance",
      "kind": "method",
      "layer": "method",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "provenance",
        "w3c-prov",
        "credit",
        "ro-crate"
      ],
      "status": "Experimental application profile",
      "summary": "Use W3C PROV, CRediT and RO-Crate before adding narrow local metadata for authority, branch state and handoff.",
      "direction": "Keep the research process inspectable and interoperable.",
      "href": "/provenance/",
      "related": [
        "method:memory-palace",
        "direction:distributed-discovery"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "method:astro-agalmic",
      "title": "astro-agalmic",
      "kind": "tool",
      "layer": "method",
      "commitment": "supporting",
      "meaningful": false,
      "topics": [
        "knowledge-architecture",
        "astro",
        "open-source",
        "search",
        "knowledge-management"
      ],
      "status": "Open-source Astro integration · v0.1",
      "summary": "A freely reusable extraction of the site's semantic registry, build validation, static full-text search, knowledge-history and generated-context machinery.",
      "direction": "Give the discovery architecture away, dogfood it here, and improve the reusable layer from external use.",
      "href": "/tools/astro-agalmic/",
      "related": [
        "method:memory-palace",
        "method:possibility-portfolio",
        "method:provenance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "handoff:terminus",
      "title": "Knowledge Handoff Terminus",
      "kind": "handoff-index",
      "layer": "method",
      "commitment": "active",
      "meaningful": true,
      "topics": [
        "epistemic-handoff",
        "expertise",
        "validation",
        "collaboration"
      ],
      "status": "Open handoffs",
      "summary": "The boundary of the current project's authority: questions and artefacts that are ready to move toward missing expertise rather than accumulate more local elaboration.",
      "direction": "Make missing authority and next required expertise visible as a first-class research state.",
      "href": "/handoff/",
      "related": [
        "method:memory-palace",
        "direction:economics-epistemic-abundance",
        "direction:distributed-discovery"
      ]
    }
  ]
}