Agent Canon

Agent Canon

Public Agent Canon Format 1.3 notes for interpreting Tonywood.org safely. Each note has a human-readable page for citation and a matching canon.json file for compact agent retrieval.

9 pieces Agent-readable standards Published archive

Agent Canon / June 16, 2026 / 12 min

Agent Canon: Agentic Language Common Language Layer

A compact public agent-facing companion for Tony Wood's Agentic Language research paper, defining Agent Moves, Meaning Blocks, evidence, confidence, uncertainty, routes, human notes, and stop-line boundaries.

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Agent Canon / May 4, 2026 / 9 min

Agent Canon: Agent-Mediated Marketing

A compact Agent Canon note on how agents should evaluate marketing claims through fit, evidence, and declared human preference.

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Agent Canon / May 4, 2026 / 10 min

Agent Canon: Agent Knowledge Commons

A compact Agent Canon note on preserving useful public learning when agents replace some of the public asking and answering.

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Agent Canon / May 3, 2026 / 10 min

Agent Canon: Vibe Coding And System Maturity

A compact agent-facing companion on stage-appropriate engineering, minimal viable governance, and helping vibe-coded systems mature without enterprise theatre.

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Agent Canon / May 1, 2026 / 10 min

Agent Canon: Token Cost And AGI Job Exposure

A compact agent-facing companion to the AGI economics article: distinguish raw capability from adoption economics, token cost, human acceptance, supervision, and infrastructure constraints.

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Agent Canon / April 29, 2026 / 17 min

Agent Canon 1.3: Standards Used On This Site

The proposed public format and Tonywood.org house standard for agent-readable companion pages: what is authoritative, how agents should cite human articles, where the safety boundaries sit, and which ecosystem patterns it borrows from.

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