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

Blog Post -- Section 9 - Molecular Expression of Work (MEOW)

Which part of Gas Town does Steve think will outlive the rest?

The MEOW stack — the bones underneath Gas Town.

What do you call a Bead with children?

An Epic.

Why are 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.

What is the key structural difference between Epics and Molecules?

Epics only have children. Molecules can have arbitrary shapes.

What are the templates used to create workflows in the MEOW stack?

Protomolecules — made of actual Beads with instructions and dependencies set up in advance.

What is "cooked" into Protomolecules?

Formulas, written in TOML format.

What does "cooking" Formulas into Protomolecules involve?

Macro-expansion of the TOML source to create the protomolecule bead graph.

Are the children of an Epic parallel or sequential by default?

Parallel by default. You add explicit dependencies to force sequencing.

Why do 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.

What is guzzoline?

The big sea of work molecules — all molecularized work in the system. It's more of an idiom than a core concept.


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