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Agents & Cognition

The Runtime Abstraction Layer, affordance-based capability routing, model routing, the agentic tool loop, specialists, swarms, and delegation.

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The Runtime Abstraction Layer: Adapters & the Normalized Contract

How AdapterManager drives Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, Antigravity, and HTTP runtimes through one normalized task/result contract.

RALAdapters
Affordance Matching: Routing by Capability, Never by Name

Every workspace agent is ranked ready, offline-capable, enablable, or incapable against a node's declared requirements — never a hardcoded agent name.

AffordancesRouting
Model Routing: Minimum-Sufficient Tiers

How each task is classified and routed to the cheapest sufficient model tier, unless an explicit pin or override wins.

Model routing
Sessions: Persistent Working Memory, Reconstructed Prompts

Sessions persist across turns, but the prompt is reconstructed each time — persona, task, plan, and fresh observations reassembled, not resent stale.

Sessions
The Agentic Tool Loop

Inside a run, an agent node wields its full Agentis toolbox — role manifest, universal floor, bridged MCP tools, and the agentis.* surface — as one streamed activity feed.

Tool loop
The Paved Road: compass.next

Every settled tool result carries a compass.next suggestion — guidance that lives in results, not just in prompts.

Paved roadCompass
World-Autonomy

Bypass mode: auto-approval, a root-power briefing, and env-fix resume that re-runs the unchanged graph after fixing missing config.

AutonomyBypass mode
The Open-Role Specialist Registry

Platform, custom, generated, and community specialist roles — and why a specialist is a role, not a fixed agent.

Specialists
The Specialist Mind: Curated, Multimodal Knowledge at Dispatch

Curated facts, preferences, rules, and vision-derived design patterns distilled into retrievable atoms the engine injects at dispatch.

Specialist Mind
Demand Routing & Responsibility

How a subdomain of work gets deterministically mapped to the specialist accountable for it, with every hand-off recorded and auditable.

Demand routing
Swarms & Converge

Fan a task out to worker sessions, each in its own worktree, then merge — the two cooperation shapes and when to reach for each.

SwarmsCooperation
Delegate Teams

How an agent hands a bounded task to a resolved teammate and awaits the result, with budget and attribution threaded through so no spend is anonymous.

Delegation
Command Model & Heartbeat

The autonomous orchestrator's command-and-control loop and liveness heartbeat.

Command model

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