The architectural substrate for coherence wherever AI moves faster than humans can synchronize.
MCP defines transport. Agent Skills defines description. The Missing Layer defines coherence — the minimum viable structure required for intent to remain intelligible as complexity increases.
Nine primitives. No more.
Architecture is what it is — the shapes, relationships, and invariants. Infrastructure is what it does — the substrate that products and systems are built on. Implementation is how you do it — the skills, runtimes, and platforms that fill the shapes.
Architectural Declaration — The philosophical anchor. Why this exists, what the primitives are, and what they guarantee. This document is frozen.
Protocol Specification — The normative specification. What an implementation MUST do to conform, what properties MUST hold, and what failure modes MUST be handled. This document is a living draft, open for comment.
| Context | Control | Interaction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boundary | Scope | View | Connector |
| Commitment | Domain | Archetype | Binding |
| Truth | Capability | Policy | Provenance |
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