themissinglayer

# The Missing Layer The architectural substrate for coherence wherever AI moves faster than humans can synchronize. MCP defines transport. Agent Skills defines description. **The Missing Layer defines coherence** — the minimum viable structure required for intent to remain intelligible as complexity increases. Nine primitives. No more. **Architecture** is what it is — the shapes, relationships, and invariants. **Infrastructure** is what it does — the substrate that products and systems are built on. **Implementation** is how you do it — the skills, runtimes, and platforms that fill the shapes. --- ## Documents **[Architectural Declaration](manifesto.md)** — The philosophical anchor. Why this exists, what the primitives are, and what they guarantee. This document is frozen. **[Protocol Specification](rfc.md)** — The normative specification. What an implementation MUST do to conform, what properties MUST hold, and what failure modes MUST be handled. This document is a living draft, open for comment. --- ## The Nine Primitives | | Context | Control | Interaction | |--|---------|---------|-------------| | **Boundary** | Scope | View | Connector | | **Commitment** | Domain | Archetype | Binding | | **Truth** | Capability | Policy | Provenance | --- ## Contributing This is a request for comment. Open an issue. --- ## License This work is licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](LICENSE).