Keep the source understandable.
The canon stays in structured Markdown that its owner can read and edit. A small, inspectable information model is central to the product.
03 / INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE / OPEN-SOURCE ALPHA
Personal Canon
Useful context. Deliberate access.
AI projects need context. They do not all need the same context. I designed a local gateway that lets each project ask for the information it is allowed to use, while proposed updates remain reviewable.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Owner and builder: information model, project access workflow, examples, documentation, and evaluation. Built with AI coding assistance.
THE RESULT
A public, command-line-first alpha for a single owner, with local Markdown, project-specific access, and reviewed updates.
FICTIONAL CONTEXT / ORBIT ATLAS
One project. Three different answers.
A browser illustration of the public alpha’s documented example. No personal library is loaded, and nothing is stored.
PERMITTED CONTEXT
Return the relevant preference.
INPUT / OBSERVATION
“How should I present design feedback?”
RECORDED RESULT
Concise evidence before recommendations.
Orbit Atlas is allowed to read the communication-preferences topic. It receives the matching statement.
THE PROBLEM
What needed to change.
Copying personal context into every project makes it harder to control where information goes and which version is current. I wanted a source I could maintain once, with explicit rules for how each project uses it.
THE DECISIONS
Separate access from relevance.
A project receives relevant statements only within its allowed topics. Being relevant does not make an otherwise prohibited topic available.
Treat a suggestion as a proposal.
Projects can propose a change to the canon. They cannot approve their own updates or grant themselves more access. Review is a separate action with a visible outcome.
CURRENT STATE
What works today.
The public repository includes setup instructions, a security model, and a fictional acceptance example that exercises allowed requests, denied requests, proposals, and access removal.
This is an alpha for cooperative local tools, not a sandbox against malicious software running under the same operating-system account. It does not automatically record conversations or synchronize a library to the cloud.