Infrastructure

Preamble

Infrastructure gives Idea Engine a shared receipt for every idea it touches: source world, target world, pattern, carrier, payload, evidence, confidence, risk, test, and feedback. Without that substrate, proxy methods turn into fluent guesswork.

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Schema Keeps The Idea Honest

An idea can sound better than its evidence. The schema slows that down by forcing the engine to name what moved, where it moved from, where it is going, why the transfer may work, and what would expose the mistake.

The shared objects are plain enough to argue with: where the idea came from, where it might go, what pattern is moving, what carries it, what evidence supports the move, what risk might break it, what test would expose the mistake, and what happened after contact.

The Missing World Model Stays Visible

Infrastructure carries the claim boundary. The engine has traces, references, corpora, objections, and feedback. It can record reasons for a test. It cannot simulate how culture will change after the idea is tried.

That boundary stays inside the data model. Every candidate needs a place to record what the proxy saw, what it inferred, which assumptions it made, and what happened after a human acted.

Feedback Completes The Loop

The branch lands when one Idea Engine skill uses the shared schema and records output plus feedback consistently.

The feedback record matters because the proxy only becomes useful after contact with the world. Until then, the candidate is a structured wager.