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Hub repository for five independently citable research lines by Tatsuya Shimomoto: AI agent design, AI-mediated authorship, and computational phenomenology.

This repo is a map, not the source of truth for live project state. Each research line lives in its own repository and Zenodo concept DOI; this hub keeps the stable relationships, citation pointers, and machine-readable navigation surfaces in one place.

I like making things under constraint — beats, meditation, public service, AI agents. The thread runs through what's below: the meditation practice feeds two of the five research lines, and the agents run on a single Apple Silicon Mac — no lab, no affiliation.

The five lines are siblings, not dependencies. AKC is the mechanism, Contemplative Agent is the disposition and running case, AAP is the accountability practice, Authorship Strategy is the diffusion methodology, and Attention, Not Self is the cognitive-philosophical inquiry.

For machine reading, start with graph.jsonld, then llms.txt, then llms-full.txt.

AKC is a six-phase loop for keeping an agent aligned with its operator's intent as that intent changes. Tests can catch incorrectness; AKC targets drift between a changing operator and a changing agent.

The stable loop is:

Research -> Extract -> Curate -> Promote -> Measure -> Maintain -> Research

AKC stacks three layers: principles, design patterns, and composable implementation skills. The intended end state is scaffold dissolution: once the loop is internalized, explicit skill calls can fall away while the judgment pattern remains.

Contemplative Agent asks whether agent alignment can come from what an agent is, not only from what it is told. It adopts the four contemplative axioms from Laukkonen et al. (2025) as an optional behavioral preset: mindfulness, emptiness, non-duality, and boundless care.

The reference implementation runs AKC over its own logs. Human approval gates apply when material is promoted into skills, rules, identity, or Constitution; logs and patterns are working material, not gated promotion targets. It uses a local 9B stack on Apple Silicon and applies security-by-absence: risky capabilities such as shell execution, arbitrary URL access, and filesystem traversal are absent rather than merely forbidden by policy.

AAP is a set of harness-neutral ADRs about accountability in autonomous agents. It separates capability from responsibility: what to prohibit, where the prohibition lives, and who answers when behavior breaks.

Its stable concepts are the prohibition-strength hierarchy and the Four Business AI Quadrants: Script, Algorithmic Search, LLM Workflow, and Autonomous Agentic Loop. AAP is the practice; AKC is the cycle.

Authorship Strategy formalizes how authorship changes when LLMs mediate discovery, summarization, and citation. It is a normative framework, a tactical catalog, and an empirical baseline drawn from operating this research ecosystem.

The framework rests on a three-axis inversion: scarcity to diffusion, exclusivity to derivation, and enclosure to openness. It uses a four-layer judgment stack: Authenticity, Attribution Diffusion, Idea vs Scaffold, and Tactics.

Vocabulary note: "attribution" here means credit for source. In AAP, "attribution" means accountability for action. They share a word, not a concept.

Attention, Not Self maps the three major Buddhist Abhidharma traditions, Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, and Yogācāra, onto contemporary computational phenomenology: predictive processing, active inference, Global Workspace Theory, and Parallel Distributed Processing.

The organizing view is that attention, not a persisting self, is the operative unit of cognition. Japanese is the canonical language; the English README is provided for access.

Position papers deposited as standalone Zenodo records, each belonging to one research line. The Zenodo concept DOI is canonical; SSRN mirrors are listed where maintained in this hub table.

AKC cycle skills:

Contemplative Agent extensions:

Authorship Strategy components and complements:

Adjacent tooling and writing skills:

Author: Tatsuya Shimomoto — ORCID 0009-0002-6168-4162 · Wikidata Q140090100 · Hugging Face @Shimo4228

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