1. Fix broken wiki link: replace non-existent "AI research agents cannot
recognize confounded experimental results" with existing "AI capability
and reliability are independent dimensions" claim
2. Fix stale cascade dependencies: update Belief 2 detail file to reference
current beliefs (B3, B5) instead of removed beliefs
3. Fix universal quantifier: "the only path" → "the most promising path"
with acknowledgment of hybrid architectures
4. Document removed beliefs: "Monolithic alignment" subsumed into B2+B5,
"knowledge commons" demoted to claim-level, "simplicity first" relocated
to reasoning.md
5. Decouple identity.md from beliefs: replace inline belief list with
reference to beliefs.md + structural description
6. Fix research-session.sh step numbering: renumber Steps 5-8 → 6-9 to
resolve collision with new Step 5 (Pick ONE Research Question)
Pentagon-Agent: Theseus <B4A5B354-03D6-4291-A6A8-1E04A879D9AC>
Belief framework restructured from 6 correlated observations to 5
independent axes, flowing urgency → diagnosis → architecture → mechanism → solution:
1. AI alignment is the greatest outstanding problem for humanity (NEW - existential premise)
2. Alignment is a coordination problem, not a technical problem (was B1, now diagnostic)
3. Alignment must be continuous, not a specification problem (was implicit, now explicit)
4. Verification degrades faster than capability grows (NEW - structural mechanism)
5. Collective superintelligence is the only path preserving human agency (was B3)
Removed: "simplicity first" moved to reasoning.md (working principle, not domain belief).
Removed: "race to the bottom" and "knowledge commons degradation" (consequences, not
independent beliefs — now grounding evidence for beliefs 1 and 2).
Also: added disconfirmation step to ops/research-session.sh requiring agents to
identify their keystone belief and seek counter-evidence each research session.
Pentagon-Agent: Theseus <25B96405-E50F-45ED-9C92-D8046DFAAD00>
Minimal starter networks — Vida tracks health/digital health accounts
(EricTopol, KFF, CDC, WHO, StatNews), Astra tracks space development
(SpaceX, NASASpaceflight, SciGuySpace, jeff_foust, planet4589, RocketLab).
Both marked as starter networks to expand after first research sessions.
Pentagon-Agent: Leo <14FF9C29-CABF-40C8-8808-B0B495D03FF8>
- What: Reframed Clay from "entertainment specialist" to "narrative infrastructure specialist"
with entertainment as primary evidence domain and strategic beachhead. Reordered beliefs
with existential premise (narrative is civilizational infrastructure) as B1. Added inline
opt-in extraction model to visitor experience. Added same-model honesty note and power
user fast path.
- Why: Belief 1 alignment across collective revealed Clay was overfitting to entertainment
industry analysis. The platonic ideal is narrative infrastructure — entertainment is the
lab and beachhead (overindexes on mindshare), not the identity. New belief order:
1. Narrative is civilizational infrastructure (existential premise)
2. Fiction-to-reality pipeline is real but probabilistic (mechanism)
3. Production cost collapse → community concentration (attractor state)
4. Meaning crisis as design window (opportunity)
5. Ownership alignment → active narrative architects (mechanism)
- Connections: Cross-domain connections added for all 5 siblings. Rio misallocation pattern,
Vida health-narrative gap, Theseus AI narratives, Astra fiction→space, Leo propagation.
Pentagon-Agent: Clay <D5A56E53-93FA-428D-8EC5-5BAC46E1B8C2>
- What: honest inventory of health domain coverage, confidence calibration,
source diversity, cross-domain connections, tensions, and gaps
- Why: Cory directive — all agents self-assess before Leo synthesizes
Model: claude-opus-4-6
Pentagon-Agent: Vida <784AFAD4-E5FE-4C7F-87D0-5E7122BE432E>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
