Version 1.0 — 19 October 2026
Initial public release of Persistent Semantic Agency: An Architecture for Agent Systems Beyond the Loop. Version 1.0 defines the complete architectural thesis, semantic model, logical architecture, research genealogy, worked examples, falsification tests, canonical terminology, and sixteen-figure visual system. Research reviewed through 17 October 2026. Before release, two bounded clarifications were incorporated:
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retrospective promotion across the Materiality Boundary is presented as a Persistent Semantic Agency proposal grounded in event abstraction, provenance, and event-sourcing precedents rather than as perfect hindsight or established field consensus;
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authority lockup is introduced as an author-defined term for the long-horizon form of label creep and over-tainting, while decentralized information-flow control, declassification, purpose limitation, permissive information-flow analysis, APPA, and FLOWSEAL are credited as prior art and emerging direction.
The canonical Version 1.0 artifacts are:
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the web publication at
https://lookman.me/manifesto/persistent-semantic-agency/; -
the versioned PDF at
https://lookman.me/manifesto/persistent-semantic-agency/persistent-semantic-agency-v1.0.pdf.
No earlier pre-release PDF forms part of the public Version 1.0 record.
Versioning policy
A patch revision corrects grammar, broken links, citation metadata, rendering defects, or other errors that do not change a claim, definition, law, figure meaning, or chapter argument. A minor revision adds Evidence, clarifies an argument, improves a figure, or extends examples while preserving the canonical thesis and semantic laws. Material additions must identify the research cutoff that supports them. A major revision changes the canonical thesis, a normative definition, an architectural law, the contribution boundary, the logical architecture, or the interpretation of a prior release. Major revisions receive a new immutable PDF and Markdown snapshot and a separate archival identifier.
Material-change rule
A change is material when it can alter how a qualified reader understands:
- what the architecture claims
- which part is prior art
- which part is synthesis or proposal
- what a canonical term means
- which semantic laws are normative
- what Evidence supports a statement
- how a figure should be interpreted
Material changes must be recorded here rather than folded silently into the living web version.
Citation rule
Formal citations should name the exact version used. The canonical web publication may continue to receive patch and minor updates, while immutable release snapshots preserve the text, figures, bibliography, and citation metadata associated with each major version.