# Essays

Position papers and architectural notes. These predate the doctrine cycle pattern and are not governed by it.

- [FOUNDATIONS](FOUNDATIONS.md) — theory and practice of coherence; why cnos exists
- [MANIFESTO](MANIFESTO.md) — principles for a human+AI commons
- [COHERENCE-SYSTEM](COHERENCE-SYSTEM.md) — how coherence unfolds into cnos
- [SKILL-ARCHITECTURE](SKILL-ARCHITECTURE.md) — why skills compose instead of inherit
- [SHIPPING-SOFTWARE-AFTER-AI](SHIPPING-SOFTWARE-AFTER-AI.md) — from H2M to a human triad
- [AGENT-CONTINUITY](AGENT-CONTINUITY.md) — what persists across runners as the agent
- [ACTIVATION-NOT-DEPLOYMENT](ACTIVATION-NOT-DEPLOYMENT.md) — activation versus deployment, MCP, memory, runtimes
