Pillar 1
Agency Maps
Visual and structured breakdowns of actors, goals, constraints, feedback loops, and action spaces. The signature format of the platform.
What Is an Agency Map?
An Agency Map is not a diagram for decoration. It is a tool for making structure visible. Every map applies the nine-part Agency Apparent framework to a specific system, revealing what drives its behavior and where that behavior might degrade.
Maps can be visual schematics, node-link diagrams, annotated workflows, or structured text. The form follows the function: make the hidden structure of agency apparent.
The Map Framework
01
Actor
What is acting?
02
Aim
What does the system appear to be trying to do?
03
Boundary
Where does the agent end and the environment begin?
04
Constraints
What limits or shapes behavior?
05
Perception
What can the system sense or respond to?
06
Action Space
What can the system actually do?
07
Feedback
How does the system update?
08
Failure Mode
Where does agency degrade?
09
Legibility
What became apparent?
Candidate Systems for Mapping
Published Maps
No maps published yet.
The first Agency Map is in development.