--- title: "Pattern index · Agentic Atlas" description: "A text-first index of every charted Node, in the Export manifest" canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/tree" last-updated: "2026-08-19" --- 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. 26 full Nodes · 0 Roadmap disclosures 1. [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations) the prerequisite substrate and residence test 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 skill-packaging *Hello World* and reference shape for skill-facing nodes 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) expectations at a seam, from informal prose to enforced structure 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) both sides of a seam import one shared request-and-return shape 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) contract ↔ verification ↔ re-dispatch 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 deterministic duck census rejects one manifest and turns its errors into a bounded redispatch 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) the parent-child execution primitive; serial, parallel, joined, or fire-and-forget 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) each turn is conditioned on retained history again; logical reinjection yields a cost face and an explicit-state recovery face 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) the precondition under "discard is cheaper than repairing" 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 ≪ doing lets verification work at all; the ladder + coverage, and the three failure modes (coverage exhaustion / discrimination collapse / quantifier inversion) verification-asymmetry · concept 13. [The Context Economy](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy) **statics** — the price list: denominations, the quality curve, cost classes, time value 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 30-turn session billed, then re-billed under six single-decision shifts session-bill · example 15. [Context Flow](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-flow) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-flow) **dynamics** — admission, residency, and eviction; placement and recall within residency 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) resident context steers, not just informs — path dependence, and eviction's second motive 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) Laban's sharded conversations drop 39%; the same shards in one fresh prompt hold 95.1% — a control that never got lost, not a recovery rate same-shards-fresh-window · example 18. [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) [Open detail →](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation) change when or whose window pays; may compose with selection or distillation cost-relocation · pattern 19. [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 10,000-token guide moves later or elsewhere, exposing the difference between an actor's bill and the system's one-guide-three-bills · example 20. [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) the *load-in-place* branch: defer by probability *and lateness* of need — a 50-token pointer buys ~60× on the session that never fires deferred-context · pattern 21. [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) the *authored-heavy* specialization: disk-resident, grep-addressable — pay for the size of the answer reference-data · pattern 22. [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) an 800-document shelf cannot enter a 200k-token window; one incident-code query admits one answer-sized runbook runbook-shelf · example 23. [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) the *dispatch-elsewhere* branch subagent-offload · pattern 24. [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 agent investigates in parallel; its working set stays elsewhere and only the verdict returns parallel-audit-investigation · example 25. [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) the *authored-heavy* specialization heavy-agent · pattern 26. [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) a large reference baked into the agent; narrow questions in, distilled answers out — the orchestrator never loads the docs docs-expert-agent · example Catalog revision `35263c4c415da742953d0462804fb14424e2244dae4c63efd27e468988de70ab`