Plain-language explainers of the ideas behind Honcho — why the system is designed the way it is, written so someone new to the product can get up to speed without prior context. More to come.
- Why Honcho Breaks Everything Down First — the explicit step: propositional analysis, molecular propositions, formal logic as the framework, and why normalizing data precedes all reasoning. Includes an appendix on the current implementation vs. the design (July 2026).
- Sufficient Contextualization: What an Ideal Conclusion Looks Like — the other half of conclusion quality: the stranger test, specificity within atomicity, aboutness, real pass/fail specimens from production, and why one upstream property carries retrieval, reasoning, and correction. The gap analysis and directions live in Linear (Deriver Conclusion Investigation, ML-331).
- Ideal Reasoned Representations — Courtland’s December 2025 memo, published unchanged: the north star. Memory as generative simulation, formal logic as the capture mechanism, waking/dreaming cadences, and the Platonic tree-of-logic representation.