10 — Wardley maps
Summary
The tool mapped in mermaid's wardley-beta, inheriting the sibling pack's working grammar. M1 finds the novelty in exactly two components — library curation and the delta framing — with everything between them product-shaped, which is why v1 could be rebuilt as v2 in a day. M2 draws the honesty chain and finds its one genesis component: per-node dating, from which the whole chain's credibility hangs by the same weakest-link rule the model applies to the visitor's paths. M3 splits the testing programmes — defect detection stands on near-product components, preference judgement on the scarcest one, recruited humans — and finds the calibration record at deep genesis. M4 maps the advanced user's reframing and positions the exercised set at genesis for a design reason, not a technical one.
Key concepts
- The maps agree — the genesis components are written, not programmed — the argument for documents-before-code
- M2 — the honesty chain — a claim's credibility hangs from its least-evolved link
- The working grammar — the wardley-beta constraints, found empirically there, applied here
Key ideas
- Positions are judgements published to be moved; the thinnest one is named under each map.
- If a public evidence-classed library of agent grant trees existed elsewhere, M1's genesis component would be an adoption, not a build — none is known, dated 21 August 2026.
- The code is where the hours go and the maps say it is the cheap part — the inverse of how the work feels.