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#+title: Design Decisions
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This document has been split into the [[file:design/][design/]] subfolder, one file per major design domain.

See the [[file:design/_index.org][design index]] for the full list.

** Sections

- [[file:design/foundation.org][Foundation]] — non-negotiable identity, single agent, unified memory, Org-mode as AST, homoiconicity
- [[file:design/the-two-brains.org][The Two Brains]] — probabilistic-deterministic split, four pillars, dispatcher as learning system
- [[file:design/safety-self-preservation.org][Safety & Self-Preservation]] — self-preservation, type-level gates, layered signal authentication
- [[file:design/the-symbolic-engine.org][The Symbolic Engine]] — options, gate bootstrap, cardinality policies, ontology, Merkle DAG
- [[file:design/knowledge-sources.org][Knowledge Sources]] — Wikidata, MOMo
- [[file:design/implementation-properties.org][Implementation Properties]] — performance, provenance chain
- [[file:design/engineering-infrastructure.org][Engineering Infrastructure]] — REPL, cybernetic loop, observability, literate programming, evaluations, MCP, local-first, token economics, time awareness
- [[file:design/validation.org][Validation]] — Whitehead, McCarthy, Marcus, CREST, competitive argument
- [[file:design/open-questions.org][Open Questions]]
- [[file:design/relation-to-passepartouts-existing-architecture.org][Relation to Existing Architecture]]