Version history
The agency threshold
We revise published writing the way software is revised: deliberately, in versions, with the reasoning recorded. Superseded versions stay readable here for as long as we keep them published. Revisions made before the version system live in the repository history.
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v9 · 2026-08-20 · current
Founder-approved agency-threshold semantic migration
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v8 · 2026-08-03
Abstract revised under guidelines v13 colon discipline; body unchanged.
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v7 · 2026-08-03
Brief copy revised under guidelines v13 colon discipline; body unchanged.
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v6 · 2026-08-03
Brief added (guidelines v12): problem / mechanism / move, claim-traced with confidence marks; body unchanged.
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v5 · 2026-08-03
Subtitle revised under guidelines v10 density rule: 'a system' replaces 'AI' as the subject; body unchanged.
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v4 · 2026-08-02
Guidelines v9 review: earned-use classification re-audited under the refined rule; no language change required in this piece.
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v3 · 2026-08-02
Guidelines v8 revision: no convenient AI; the doer is named (model, system, agent, automation) and earned uses kept (discourse, citation, category, definition).
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v2 · 2026-08-02
Retitled under guidelines v7 (title formula: memorable phrase + key-takeaway statement). Body unchanged.
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v1 · 2026-08-02
First publication. Authored from the five-framework research: TaskRabbit open, the threshold rule, Anthropic 2025 and Replit cases, Moffatt v. Air Canada.