The same practice, headless — one loop, three drivers
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The Program feed is produced the same way whether a human runs a selected day in the studio, an autopilot schedule fires it, or an AI drives it over MCP. Domain and constellation Run now surfaces divide the weekly agenda into independently selectable days, preserving each member domain as the owner of its work. There is no second mechanism for headless: the MCP surface is a 1:1 clone of the human practice, so an AI chat can replicate every behaviour above. Each human-loop stage maps to a concrete op or read — this is the contract an AI agent follows to run the loop the way a Director does.
Position is an explicit, user-created domain cycle; there is no default generation clock. The operator authors its question, sample horizon, and eligibility cadence in Operations. Each eligible run creates one fresh dated Graph → Reading → Position proposal, then waits while that sample is live or awaiting judgment. Position monitors remain the faster Research path that re-prices the already-live thesis as new evidence lands. Once a sample closes, a later Position-cycle window may produce the next comparable sample.
| Human stage | What the person does | Headless (MCP) equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| Run the feed | manual "run now" or an autopilot tick | run-domain-loop (one domain, Research→Opinion→Merge→Position) · run-constellation-program (a whole portfolio) · or a single task (research-run, run-loop-opinion, run-loop-tutor, run-loop-project) |
| Orient | swipe the feed; see what changed | read-stories (the queue as the reader sees it — each card's consequence, directiveId, drill, and this member's receiptState) · read-loop · whats-changed |
| — reach caught-up | swipe past a card | mark-story (state: read / deferred / dismissed) — receipts are per-member delivery state, kept out of the model; read-stories reflects them so the queue goes finite |
| Judge | inspect a proposal, then accept/correct | read the proposal CONTENT in read-loop.proposals (tutor Merges + Position candidates / re-priced reads, with rationale) → stage-loop-directive (optionally with a payload edit) → the owning task run applies it; cancel-loop-directive backs out |
| Steer | point a read at a question | create-projection (a priced Reading + a monitor; grounded from a graph→reading, a saved reading, or a direct outline) · read-projections / read-projection (the read, its priced Reading, and how it moved) |
| Learn | watch the read re-price; read how it moved | research-run feeds Signals that reposition the active Position's read; read-projections shows the priced Reading and the track of how the read moved; the Position reasoning is not reduced to true/false, while the position it argues for is scored and calibration is measured across positions |
| Refine | fold a mature belief into canon | contribute-stream-prior (add evidence) → commit-merge / run-loop-tutor (fold a mature Stream into continuity, generating the assessment arc) |
| Configure | set cadence, autonomy, spend | configure-loop (enable / guided-vs-autonomous / per-task overrides / budgets / timezone) · apply-schedule-preset (both spend levers at once) · create/update-research-cycle · update-projection-monitor |
| Remember | re-open a past chat; review what the Pilot did | read-chats (domain / branch / constellation threads — list, open one transcript with its Pilot toolTrace, or search across them to collect information); write via UPSERT_CHAT_THREAD |
The affordance chain teaches the practice, not a flat op→op map: a run's result points at read-loop /
whats-changed (orient first); orientation points at the proposal or directive only when something
material moved; a Position points at research-run to see the next Signal that re-prices its read. An AI
should escalate to Judge/Steer/Refine only at the consequential boundaries — a story card whose
consequence is action, a proposal awaiting judgment, contested evidence — exactly as a person does.
Most passes end at Orient + mark-story: caught up, nothing to do.