Guides

How to build holons. Start with creating-holons (the definitive guide), declare your intents as you go, and reach for the advanced patterns when you're extending the contract itself.

Creating Holons

The definitive guide: the holon taxonomy, the universal contract every holon shares, the Builder/Runner/Engine pattern, code style, carry-forward generics, the four sub-holon composability types, and the file structure to follow.

Testing with Intents (IDD)

Intent-Driven Development: declare what a holon intends to do, version-controlled and machine-runnable. Intents are executable specs an AI can read and verify against.

Advanced Patterns

Beyond the base contract: builder strategy functions, the four-layer vocabulary rule, and orchestrating holons that own an inner Steward.

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For the per-holon-type building blocks these guides assume, see Patterns.