Pentad Labs Research Notes

Research notes from Pentad Labs on the architecture of WunderOS and related topics, including harness and context engineering, agentic memory, deterministic runtimes, supervisory control, and the systems theory underneath an operating system for agents.

Each note states a claim and the reasoning for it. They are dated and numbered, reflective of their place in an ongoing stream of engineering and inquiry.

  1. PLRN-000 The Sovereign Agency Grid 31 May 2026
  2. PLRN-001 Vectorspaces: Approximate-Match Tuplespaces over VSA 5 May 2026
  3. PLRN-002 Composing Deterministic-Simulation Testing Across Heterogeneous Substrates 5 May 2026
  4. PLRN-003 Compressive Concision as Non-LLM Intelligence 5 May 2026
  5. PLRN-004 Kinetic Control of Unmodified Agents 5 May 2026
  6. PLRN-005 Substrate Recursion: Convergence on a Single Evaluator 5 May 2026
  7. PLRN-006 Audit-grade Provenance by Construction 2 Jun 2026
  8. PLRN-007 Append-Only with Retraction in Agentic Memory 2 Jun 2026
  9. PLRN-008 Taint Tracking for Agent Tool-Calls 2 Jun 2026
  10. PLRN-009 Recording the Parse, Re-deriving the Plan 6 Jun 2026
  11. PLRN-010 Nabla Shadow Lease: Incremental Evaluation of Standing Queries 12 Jun 2026
  12. PLRN-011 The Saga Tree: Compensation for Agent Execution 16 Jun 2026
  13. PLRN-012 Self-Similar Trees 18 Jun 2026
  14. PLRN-013 No View From Nowhere: Perspectival Truth for the Global Enterprise 19 Jun 2026
  15. PLRN-014 Authority Without Assertion: Sealed Identity and Earned Capability for Agent Execution 22 Jun 2026
  16. PLRN-015 Extraction Before Ontology: Open-Vocabulary Parsing and Late Canonicalization 22 Jun 2026
  17. PLRN-016 No Memory of Its Own: Governing a Visiting Agent on Sovereign Data 30 Jun 2026
  18. PLRN-017 The Social Tier: Remembering Who Said What 6 Jul 2026
  19. PLRN-018 How Time Matters in an Agentic OS 8 Jul 2026
  20. PLRN-019 Gleamalog: A Datalog for Agents 10 Jul 2026
  21. PLRN-019A Gleamalog by Example: The Mortgage Casebook 10 Jul 2026
  22. PLRN-020 PlatypusDB: An Agent-Native Database 20 Jul 2026
  23. PLRN-021 What is Autonomic about WunderOS 27 Jul 2026
  24. PLRN-022 Model Minimalism 28 Jul 2026
  25. PLRN-023 Nearly-optimal Agentic Memory without an LLM 4 Aug 2026
  26. PLRN-024 Productivity Voids: Agentic Economics at Firm Scale 12 Aug 2026