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Term -- Molecule

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Gas Town workflows. Persistent work that is stored as Beads.

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Annotated version of 'Welcome to Gas Town'

So what is a Hook? Every Gas Town Worker has its own hook 🪝. It’s a special Pinned Bead, just for that agent, and it’s where you hang Term -- Molecules, which are Gas Town workflows.

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Glossary

Term Description Kind

mol Short for Term -- Molecule concept

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Molecule acceptance criteria

^ Term -- Molecule acceptance criteria

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Term -- Molecular Expression of Work - MEOW

Term -- Molecule

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Term -- Protomolecule

A set of Beads that act as a template that helps you create Term -- Molecules

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Term -- Swarm

ephemeral Agent Session taking on persistent work (like Term -- Molecules)

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Term -- guzzoline

Guzzoline: A word to represent “molecularized work” — work in the form that Agents can pick and complete a step at a time. It’s work that you can compose together, Term -- Molecules bonding with other molecules, and you can set up the dependencies for an entire gigantic project in advance, and have Gas Town swarm it for an entire weekend, unattended, if you’re brave enough.

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Term -- mol

TODO: Wait, is this just Term -- Molecules?

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agent problem - workers skip steps even when they maintain their own checklist

The fix? Term -- Molecules

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coding planning

For example, in Gas Town it would be the phase that generates Term -- Molecules

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molecules lead to resilience

Term -- Molecule lead to dim - resilience -- higher

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 10 - Nondeterministic Idempotence

What makes Term -- Molecule workflows computationally complete? ? They can have complex shapes, loops, and gates — making them Turing-complete.

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Why are agents less likely to make mistakes when following Term -- Molecules? ? They're not managing their own TODO list — they only handle a single, small step at a time, with acceptance criteria already specified.
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Similar to a Ralph loop

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What motivates agents to diligently check off Term -- Molecule steps, even trivial ones? ? They understand the bureaucracy updates a live activity feed and puts work on a permanent ledger.

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What three things make molecular workflows durable in Gas Town? ? All three are Beads backed by Git: (1) the agent, (2) the hook, (3) the Term -- Molecule itself.

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What happens when a new session discovers the previous one crashed mid-step in a Term -- Molecule? ? It figures out the right fix, performs it, and moves on to the next step.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 11 - Wisps - Ephemeral Orchestration Beads

What type of Bead is not stored in git, and why? ? Wisps are not stored because they describe ephemeral Term -- Molecule of work. Storing them would just be orchestration noise.

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What type of Term -- Molecule are stored as Wisps, and why? ? Molecules associated with Patrols because those workflows need to complete transactionally, but don't need to be stored in git.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 13 - Gas Town Plugins

How are plugins triggered within a workflow? ? Any workflow can contain "run plugins" steps — they're just steps in a Term -- Molecule.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 14 - Convoys

What happens to a Polecat when its Term -- Molecule enters a Gate state? ? The Polecat disappears. When the Gate bead triggers, Gas Town wakes up a new Polecat to continue the work.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 16 - Planning in Gas Town

Once work Term -- Molecule are generated, what makes it possible to burn through them autonomously? ? You hook the work to a worker and Gas Town burns through it via GUPP — no further intervention needed.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 6 - Gastown Universal Propulsion Principle

Where do you hang Term -- Molecule for a worker to execute? ? On the worker's Hook — a special Pinned Bead unique to that agent.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 7 - The GUPP Nudge

What enables workers to continue Term -- Molecule across sessions? ? GUPP — as long as work is on their hook, any new session picks it up and continues.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 9 - Molecular Expression of Work (MEOW)

Why are Term -- Molecules needed when coding agents already break work into TODOs? ? To set up sequenced work ahead of time, so you can queue hours of work that agents execute atomically in the right order.

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What is the key structural difference between Epics and Term -- Molecules? ? Epics only have children. Term -- Molecules can have arbitrary shapes.

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Why do Term -- Molecules survive agent crashes, compactions, and restarts? ? Because a molecule is a chain of Beads which is stored in Git. A new session just finds its place in the molecule and picks up where the last one left off.

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What is guzzoline? ? The big sea of work Term -- Molecules — all molecularized work in the system. It's more of an idiom than a core concept.

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the 'spec' part of a documentation context graph should be at a PRD and light ERD hybrid level

Then in coding planning you break out the Term -- Molecules

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