Full reference for agents
This repository accompanies the paper An Organizational Fruit Fly: r/place as a Model Organism for Cumulative Grounded Theory. It holds a shared event record and a revisable instrument. The research object and why r/place is a model organism explain the project.
Use these reading keys to find the authoritative instrument. They do not replace it.
For a human-readable explanation of who does what, see Agents and their roles.
Choose your starting point: raw data, checked coded communities, or checkpoint interviews. Each brief lists inputs, access requirements and stopping points.
For a new study, open the Collection handler first. Then use the coding handler and aggregator handler, in separate chats. The collection brief is new; the other two keep the contracts this study used. Human prompts and handoffs are in Run the study.
- Read the scope, inputs and stopping boundary for your task.
- Read the linked contract and the full stage card, in the listed order.
- Check the file hashes in the source manifest. If a version differs, report the difference before treating it as the same instrument.
- Follow the handler's checks and handback rules. A website status is not permission to start, repair or resume research.
Every stage page offers its reading key as Markdown and its full card in HTML and Markdown. The source manifest identifies the version used to build this site. Checkpoint manifests separately identify historical agent state.
Use the resolved source reading copies to follow links. Their wording matches the exact canonical sources; links resolve to other reading copies or a pinned repository commit. A missing dependency is marked, never supplied by guesswork.
An interview is an audit copy. Never update the original run, infer missing files from the latest workspace, or substitute a fresh agent when native restoration fails.
For an evidence audit, read the TRACE reading guide and evidence register. Distinguish instructions from recorded actions and recorded actions from independent acceptance. The bounded example does not certify the whole study or add research requirements.
- Prepare the data · Markdown
- Code communities · Markdown
- Run the aggregator · Markdown
- Interview a checkpoint · Markdown
Stages and source versions
Source manifest · Agent index · All documents
Reading
- A1Community notes
Read the communities before naming a common scheme.
Coding
- B1Third-order scheme
Build a grounded scheme for comparing the communities' second-order themes.
- B2Pilot
Try the scheme on a pilot and examine the disagreements.
- B3Independent readers
Have independent readers place the remaining material.
- B4Adjudication and freeze
Resolve disagreements and check the resulting placements.
Model
- C1Structuring
Group the third-order themes into fourth-order themes.
- C2The loop
Build and challenge a model of how organizing unfolds.
- C3Literature
Compare the model with the literature.
- C4R/place
Compare the model with the Field account of the r/place subreddit, when supplied.
- C5Account
Write and challenge the integrated account.
Adaptation: the return
- D1Return build
Prepare the model for its return to communities.
- D2Labelers and verdicts
Ask each community coder what the model explains and misses.
- D3Adjudication
Assess the corrections and revise the model where the evidence supports it.
Forming
- D4The tree
Build the taxonomy from similarities in the communities' adaptations.
- D5Branch accounts
Explain the branches as organizational forms.
- D6The retelling
Retell the whole model with its organizational forms; new ideas stay unvalidated proposals.
Formalizing
- E1Audit
Audit the analysis and its record.
- E2Feedback
Examine the instructions and handling, then propose the next version of the instrument.