INSPIRED BY FIELD SCIENTISTS / INTELLECTUAL LINEAGE
Colony did not begin at a blank page. It borrowed five instruments for seeing rules, world models, memory, priors, and embodiment — then built its own Mentat boundary between intention and action.
With gratitude. Names indicate intellectual lineage — not Colony membership, endorsement, or reproduction.
FIELD JOURNAL / HOW THE ROUTE CHANGED
This is a history of influence, not a claim of implementation parity. Each field note records the source, the design turn it provoked, and the test that can still send us back.
With gratitude to Stephen Wolfram
With gratitude to Yann LeCun
With gratitude to Demis Hassabis, Dharshan Kumaran, Christopher Summerfield & Matthew Botvinick
With gratitude to François Chollet
With gratitude to Yanbo Zhang & Michael Levin
Colony-native concept by Valentin Kalinin
THE ATLAS / ELEVEN PAPER TRAILS
The City is the shared context. Beyond its gate, each source takes one organ-territory: memory, handoff, oversight, evidence, orchestration, or the still-unknown edge.
THE READING RULE
Research is not a mood board for the architecture. Every reference on this shelf has a named reader, a place where its pattern might transfer, and a question that can still prove us wrong.
ARXIV / TRACKED SHELF
Eleven primary references are surfaced from the current architect identity and technical-frontier reports. They are source links and transfer hypotheses — not proof that Colony has reproduced the papers.
HOLA pairs a compressive recurrent state with a bounded exact KV cache selected by surprise, giving the lost prefix somewhere precise to survive.
MemoHarness treats the harness itself as editable: execution diagnoses and a dual-layer experience bank adapt control to the case.
A language game gives a non-neural system a route to express its own dynamics through action, instead of borrowing a model's voice.
MI9 frames runtime governance as continuous telemetry, authorization, conformance, drift detection, and graduated containment.
HILA trains a policy to decide when an agent should solve and when it should defer, then uses expert feedback for continual learning.
Delegation is treated as a sequence of decisions with role boundaries, intent, authority, responsibility, accountability, and trust.
Natural-language intent compiles into an editable workflow graph with reusable components, topology preview, tracing, and human-in-the-loop interaction.
Compositional delegation and scope attenuation make authority a bounded contract that can be layered over existing policy.
OrchVis makes goal alignment, task assignment, dependencies, verification, and selective replanning visible to the supervising human.
AutoResearchClaw turns failed experiments into information through debate, a self-healing executor, verifiable reporting, and targeted human intervention.
Argus pairs searchers with a navigator that keeps a shared evidence graph, dispatches missing pieces, and verifies the assembled answer.
COLONY FIELD TEAM / DECLARED IDENTITIES
No invented job titles live here. These six identities already exist in Colony's configuration; the papers above supply questions, never substitute personalities.
Owns meaning, priorities, development boundaries, and the roadmap.
Questions: delegation & scope ↗architecture & transfer contractsProposes and coordinates the next bounded cycle. She does not authorize, certify, or execute it.
Questions: orchestration & replanning ↗coordination, not motor authorityReads primary sources, separates source claims from interpretation, and turns research into verifiable artifacts.
Questions: memory, embodiment & evidence ↗source-grounded researchKeeps names, provenance, Society Protocol events, and durable knowledge legible.
Questions: evidence & memory ↗knowledge keeperAudits claims, authority, telemetry, and environment honesty; it may block but does not execute.
Questions: governance & falsification ↗truth gateChecks whether an execution packet is complete, still intermediate, or genuinely needs human escalation.
Contract: intent → evidence → afterstate ↗completion & escalationTHE ARCHITECT'S DESK · AA_AI_ARCHITECT
The Architect owns priorities and development boundaries, then asks the harder question: what must remain true when a research pattern becomes a Colony primitive?
SWE, ML, ARC, research, and release each get an explicit surface.
A broad frontier becomes one meaningful next question, not a swarm of slogans.
A decision is not complete until the effect, authority, and remaining uncertainty are inspectable.