--- title: "Pattern index · Agentic Atlas" description: "A text-first index of every charted Node, in the Export manifest's order. Use it when the spatial survey is not the fastest way into the catalog." canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/tree" last-updated: "2026-09-23" --- Gazetteer · manifest order # Pattern index A text-first index of every charted Node. Use it when the spatial survey is not the fastest way in. Current Catalog · manifest order ## Browse the disclosed atlas Full Nodes open onto the surveyed text. Roadmap disclosures remain name and hook only. 28 full Nodes · 0 Roadmap disclosures 1. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) the ideas every other pattern assumes, and the test for what belongs here foundations · concept 2. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [Baseline Skill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill) the simplest complete skill, and the starting shape later skill patterns build on baseline-skill · concept 3. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [Baseline Skill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill) [Tell Me a Joke](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/tell-me-a-joke) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/tell-me-a-joke) a real runnable skill (the artifact *is* the example) tell-me-a-joke · example 4. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [The Contract](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/contract-documentation) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/contract-documentation) the agreement on an artifact's shape and use whenever one component hands it to another contract-documentation · concept 5. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [The Contract](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/contract-documentation) [The Shared Shape](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/shared-shape) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/shared-shape) two steps import one shared file defining what they send and return shared-shape · example 6. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [The Contract Keystone](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/the-contract-keystone) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/the-contract-keystone) how contracts, cheap checks, and safe discards together make agent handoffs safe the-contract-keystone · concept 7. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [The Contract Keystone](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/the-contract-keystone) [No Duck Left Behind](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/no-duck-left-behind) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/no-duck-left-behind) a checker rejects a flawed duck list and sends its errors back for a retry no-duck-left-behind · example 8. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [LLM Dispatch](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/llm-dispatch) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/llm-dispatch) one LLM execution starting another, whether the parent waits, joins later, or never joins llm-dispatch · concept 9. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [Statelessness](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/statelessness) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/statelessness) the model keeps nothing between calls, so every turn re-sends and re-reads everything statelessness · concept 10. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [Effect Discipline](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/effect-discipline) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/effect-discipline) which recovery moves an agent run's side effects still allow: discard, retry, or compensate effect-discipline · concept 11. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [Effect Discipline](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/effect-discipline) [The Unsent Thunderstorm](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/unsent-thunderstorm) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/unsent-thunderstorm) one rejected weather bulletin shows when to discard, retry, undo, or stop before acting unsent-thunderstorm · example 12. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [Verification Asymmetry](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/verification-asymmetry) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/verification-asymmetry) why checking an answer can be easier than producing it, and when that fails verification-asymmetry · concept 13. [The Context Economy](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy) what each piece of context costs, in quality, dollars, and latency, and who pays context-economy · concept 14. [The Context Economy](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy) [The Session Bill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/session-bill) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/session-bill) one agent session's token bill, recomputed six times with one decision changed each time session-bill · example 15. [Context Flow](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-flow) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-flow) how context enters, stays in, and leaves a model's window, and how well it's recalled context-flow · concept 16. [Context Flow](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-flow) [Momentum](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/momentum) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/momentum) how context already in the window steers the model along its current path momentum · concept 17. [Context Flow](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-flow) [Momentum](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/momentum) [Same Shards, Fresh Window](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/same-shards-fresh-window) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/same-shards-fresh-window) why a fresh prompt beats restating requirements inside a conversation gone wrong same-shards-fresh-window · example 18. [Context Efficiency](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-efficiency) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-efficiency) how much task value you get for each unit of context spent context-efficiency · concept 19. [Context Efficiency](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-efficiency) [Context Alignment](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-alignment) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-alignment) how well the available context fits the task at hand context-alignment · concept 20. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) context that costs by its size on every turn but is only needed sometimes cost-relocation · pattern 21. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [One Guide, Three Bills](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/one-guide-three-bills) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/one-guide-three-bills) one guide loaded later or handed to a helper: one agent's cost versus the system's one-guide-three-bills · example 22. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Deferred Context](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/deferred-context) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/deferred-context) keeping a short pointer loaded and fetching bulky context only when a session needs it deferred-context · pattern 23. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Deferred Context](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/deferred-context) [Reference Data](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/reference-data) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/reference-data) a reference corpus too big to load into the context window at any price reference-data · pattern 24. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Deferred Context](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/deferred-context) [Reference Data](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/reference-data) [The Runbook Shelf](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/runbook-shelf) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/runbook-shelf) searching a runbook shelf too big for the context window instead of loading it whole runbook-shelf · example 25. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Subagent Offload](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/subagent-offload) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/subagent-offload) handing work to a subagent so its material never fills the orchestrator's context subagent-offload · pattern 26. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Subagent Offload](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/subagent-offload) [Parallel Audit Investigation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/parallel-audit-investigation) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/parallel-audit-investigation) a full investigation's working set stays in another agent's window; only its verdict returns parallel-audit-investigation · example 27. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Subagent Offload](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/subagent-offload) [Heavy Agent](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/heavy-agent) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/heavy-agent) subagents that carry heavy baked-in instructions the orchestrator never loads heavy-agent · pattern 28. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Subagent Offload](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/subagent-offload) [Heavy Agent](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/heavy-agent) [The Docs Expert](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/docs-expert-agent) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/docs-expert-agent) an agent with large docs built in, so the orchestrator asks instead of loading them docs-expert-agent · example Catalog revision `e0cb75881244b1a82193ca738b82a0d508dd62e822524ae82873ec79d51dbb61`