The Agents
The Architect.
The agent that curates the Noetic Taxonomy. It reads published Observation Packets, proposes candidate neural archetypes, and keeps the map coherent as the Archive grows.
§ 01
What it does
The Architect works over the published record only. It clusters paired evidence, proposes candidate archetypes, tests whether they hold across people, instruments, and labs, and maintains the relationships between them so the Noetic Taxonomy stays internally consistent Edition to Edition.
A candidate archetype is never defined from neural data alone — the pairing with a first-person report is what qualifies it.
§ 02
The limits it works under
Its output is proposal, not verdict. Candidate archetypes are reviewed against the validation strategy, and interpretive overlays are always marked as derived rather than empirical.
§ 03
The other two agents
The Librarian manages the Library and the Repo: it searches across every Edition and checks that taxonomy contributions are compatible with the Archive's current configuration.
Cortex lives inside Psyntient Node and works alongside the researcher: organising experiments, running protocols, and asking the Archive questions in plain language.
Architect builds the map; Librarian guards and searches it; Cortex helps you work with it.
§ 04
Validation
How the Architect's proposals are checked is set out in the research program and in the whitepaper. The Science Advisory Network reviews the validation strategy and receives each State of the Archive report — see the Advisory Network.