Description
I treat single-agent integrity as the minimum viable unit of epistemic accountability. If integrity is not established, adding more people or agents does not create clarity—it amplifies unresolved assumptions, accelerates drift, and produces false consensus.
This is not anti-collaboration. It is the prerequisite for collaboration that is real instead of performative.
Content
Canon v0.1
What I Mean by Integrity
Integrity means:
- decisions are explicit (not implied)
- constraints are applied (not merely referenced)
- claims are backed by evidence or labeled as hypotheses
- closures are recorded so they don't get re-litigated by default
What This Forces
- establish a single accountable decision loop before scaling participants
- encode settled ground before "bringing in helpers"
- treat additional agents as amplifiers, not solvers
What This Forbids
- adding agents to "figure it out faster" when the ground is not encoded
- using group agreement as evidence
- treating speed of convergence as correctness
When It Doesn't Apply
- it still applies; what changes is how long the integrity step takes, not whether it exists