Principles
Frameworks built, named, and pressure-tested across real work. Not borrowed vocabulary. Original positions.
All six trace back to one finding: declared relationships beat inferred ones.
Vectorless RAG
Retrieval-first
The human stays in the retrieval loop because the loop is where learning happens. Selection beats search.
Principle · 02Atelier-Salon
Two-layer portfolio
A portfolio pattern that keeps the operator workbench visible next to the finished room.
Principle · 03Pattern Weaver
Structural recognition
The same structure keeps appearing across unrelated domains. Name it, test it, share it.
Principle · 04Declared Composition
Declared action
Catalog the atomic affordances. Compose workflows from named actions. The human lays the edges. The model traverses them.
Principle · 05Silent Witness
Privacy by construction
Privacy as architecture, not policy. Build the system that has nothing to hand over.
Principle · 06Degrowth as Design
Graduation as success
A design practice where success is users needing the product less. Usage decline is the product working.
Each one started as a pattern noticed across real work. A structural finding that kept showing up in different domains until it demanded a name. The principles will keep arriving. The list above is a current snapshot.