diff --git a/FAILURE-MODE-INDEX.md b/FAILURE-MODE-INDEX.md index 2470894..f9e4d01 100644 --- a/FAILURE-MODE-INDEX.md +++ b/FAILURE-MODE-INDEX.md @@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ Use this index when the work is blocked by a recognizable failure pattern rather | A multi-agent decision is converging too early | One perspective appears sufficient but alternatives have not been tested | [agent-council](agent-council/SKILL.md) | | A contribution may duplicate existing work | The requested feature sounds like something already in the repository | [opensource-contributions](opensource-contributions/SKILL.md) | | A workflow is repeated manually | The same sequence of skills is executed more than once | [workflow-architect](bundles/workflow-architect/SKILL.md) | +| Meaning drifts or disagrees between agents | Agents use the same word for different meanings, or semantic divergence and dead-ends block progress | [semantic-spacetime](semantic-spacetime/SKILL.md) | This is a routing aid, not a replacement for reading the selected skill. Add a row only when the failure mode has a concrete trigger and an existing skill that addresses it. diff --git a/promise-theory/references/foundations.md b/promise-theory/references/foundations.md index 7149c4f..366e301 100644 --- a/promise-theory/references/foundations.md +++ b/promise-theory/references/foundations.md @@ -391,7 +391,9 @@ Promise graphs are directed graphs whose edges are promises; since each edge requires a counter-promise to be *effective*, "a link requires the mutual consent of two autonomous agents," making promise graphs more primitive than ordinary graph adjacency — and the foundation for Burgess's notion of *semantic -spacetime* (Burgess, "Spacetimes with Semantics (I)," arXiv:1411.5563, 2014). +spacetime* (Burgess, "Spacetimes with Semantics (I)," arXiv:1411.5563, 2014); +the skill that develops this downstream concept is +[semantic-spacetime](../../semantic-spacetime/SKILL.md). Graph-inspection is where broken promises show up: two promises of the same type with different constraints are a contradiction (Burgess, "Promise You A Rose Garden," 2007). diff --git a/semantic-spacetime/references/foundations.md b/semantic-spacetime/references/foundations.md index d277886..c0a906e 100644 --- a/semantic-spacetime/references/foundations.md +++ b/semantic-spacetime/references/foundations.md @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ time, causality, the promise-theory substrate, and adjacent fields. What does not belong here: quantum-gravity or physics derivation (this is not a physics theory — see §4), the CFEngine/infrastructure application history, and the agent-coordination synthesis; those belong to the skill's application and -agent-coordination references, which are added in a later milestone. For +agent-coordination references ([applications-infrastructure.md](applications-infrastructure.md) +and [agent-coordination.md](agent-coordination.md)). For one-line definitions see [glossary.md](glossary.md); for sources see [bibliography.md](bibliography.md). @@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ injection of remedial information"* — and the boundary where the graph leaks i outgoing LEADS TO/EXPRESSES edges that matter) accumulates meaning and stops propagating it; intent or policy must be injected manually at that boundary. For a bounded diagnosis procedure using this concept, see the skill's -diagnosis-and-debugging reference (added in a later milestone). +[diagnosis-and-debugging.md](diagnosis-and-debugging.md) reference. ## 4. The "not physics" boundary @@ -285,8 +286,9 @@ requires measurement** — meaning cannot be asserted before the dynamics are measured at the right scale. Different scales yield different conclusions; a measurement that is stable at one scale can be wrong at another. This duality is the theory-level ground for the "dynamics always trumps semantics" lesson of -the infrastructure lineage (covered in the application reference, added in a -later milestone) and for Gotcha 4 in SKILL.md. +the infrastructure lineage (covered in the application reference, +[applications-infrastructure.md](applications-infrastructure.md)) and for +Gotcha 4 in SKILL.md. ## 8. Distance: metric vs semantic @@ -302,7 +304,7 @@ Part III defines two kinds of distance [VERIFIED — arXiv:1608.02193v4]: The distinction is operational: two concepts can be close in coordinates yet far in interpretation, and vice versa. A weighted hop count over a γ(3,4) graph is a semantic-distance instance of the hop-count family — the family this -skill's model tooling will implement for measuring drift between two snapshots +skill's model tooling implements for measuring drift between two snapshots of a system's meaning. ## 9. Learning and knowledge