Articles chronicling the development of ARM — design decisions, findings as they emerged from the data, and the honest-scope discipline that defines the project.
Published on LinkedIn ↗ as they are written. Articles 1–3+ are live.
Three meshes. Same question. Opposite unanimous consensus. This note walks through the CFAA zero-day run: what we observed, what we expected, why the directional opposition is the most robust signal, and what it implies for practitioners building on single providers.
Convergence is not agreement. This note introduces the Alignment Monoculture Problem: in same-model meshes, observed consensus can be indistinguishable from shared prior activation. Covers the carpentry analogy and the first evidence from runs 12–14.
The key insight from SCRUMtious to ARM: if you want to know whether peer exposure changed an agent's mind, you have to capture its uncontaminated position first. The two-round architecture and why it mirrors Global Workspace Theory.
The ARM whitepaper v4.0 (~15,300 words, 89 JSON traces in Appendix D) is in preparation for arXiv submission. Citation pass and delta_mismatch field verification in v0.7.1 exports are the remaining steps. The field notes series will link to the preprint when it is live.