The cognitive process,made visible.
This page is a public report plan, not a published Rhizome result. The planned signal will capture an instrumented run as an event stream, field graph, and policy timeline.
The problem
Most agent systems show you an output and ask you to trust the process behind it. This planned signal does the opposite: it makes the process itself the artifact. It will instrument a future run so the coordination that produces the program becomes something you can watch.
This is planned as the most Rhizome-specific signal, because it will show the thing that is actually distinctive — not a single agent thinking step by step, but a field: tensions forming where work is needed, agents attaching by fitrather than by assignment, temporary coalitions assembling around a hard sub-problem and dissolving when it's done, the verifier mesh catching what slipped, and the policy engine shifting the field between exploration and convergence.
The run will be captured as an ordered event stream and assembled into three views: a field graph evolving over time, a runtime feed of what happened, and a policy-mode band showing how the field was governed — with 1–3 highlighted moments traced back to the events that caused them.
Where a visualization is reconstructed or simplified from the raw log for readability, the report will say so plainly and label it. The goal is to show the real process, not a polished diagram of an imagined one.
Event stream
The planned raw runtime feed: every tension that forms, every agent that attaches by fit, each verifier pass and policy-mode switch — timestamped in event order.
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The planned field reconstruction over time: nodes as tensions and agents, edges as attachments, coalitions assembling and dissolving. A view of the structure, not just the log.
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The planned policy-mode band across the run — when the field runs exploratory, when it tightens toward convergence, and what triggers each shift.
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The report will select a small number of moments worth pausing on, each traced back to the events that produced it.
lands with the runMetrics
The planned run summary covers agents and roles, tensions opened and resolved, verifier passes, policy switches, and wall-clock time, with captured and reconstructed material clearly separated.
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