What it owns
- Component ingestion and refresh
- Dedupe and source linkage
- Visual previews and interaction states
- Taxonomy, tags and semantic use cases
- Gallery search, comparison and selection
P05 · Experience knowledge node
Living UI component layer
Maintain a continuously refreshed, visually browsable component corpus where people and agents can find structural necessities and contextual inspiration.
Problem boundary
What this subsystem owns and what it must hand to the rest of Actionist.
What research already found
- Two complementary 21st-derived stores join to 8,515 identities
- 3,506 legacy entries are source-bearing while much of the newer harvest is preview/bundle oriented
- Components range from universal necessities—navigation, forms, feedback—to contextual patterns
Open first-principles questions
- What is the canonical component taxonomy?
- How are near-duplicates clustered visually and structurally?
- Which components are required for every archetype?
- How are new 21st.dev releases discovered and re-indexed?
- What metadata helps a client visually choose without understanding component names?
Inputs
- 21st stores
- New component feeds
- Screenshots
- Source metadata
Outputs
- ComponentRecord
- PreviewSet
- CategoryGraph
- Selection
Connected knowledge nodes
Scientific research protocol
Every research owner uses the same evidence funnel. No padding is allowed when a denominator is inapplicable or evidence is unavailable.
Prior evidence auditRead the canonical spine, all domain-linked artifacts, the 17-industry catalogue and existing contradictions before searching again.
Commercial 100 → 10Define a denominator, map approximately 100 companies/products, and produce first-party dossiers for the strongest 10.
GitHub 100 → 10Search and dedupe approximately 100 relevant OSS projects, then deeply inspect the strongest 10 at the capability and architecture level.
Local estate joinInspect AutoSaaS, Great Library, SISOCRM, 21st stores and other domain-specific precedents already on the laptop.
Innovation 100 → 10Generate a wide divergent idea register, score it against the problem and retain the 10 strongest falsifiable innovations.
First-principles synthesisDecompose the irreducible problem, challenge inherited assumptions, reconcile contradictions and state the minimum sufficient design.
Contracts and experimentsReturn the proposed contract, dependency edges, unknowns, falsifiers, experiments, stop rules and decisions.
Independent verificationA separate verifier checks counts, links, source claims, overlap, contradictions and unsupported conclusions before promotion.
Evidence and agent outputs
Existing research remains source evidence. New agent packets are written to one owned workstream directory and linked here after verification.
| Artifact | Location | State |
|---|---|---|
| Local corpus join | research/actionmodel-builder-research-2026-08-26/phase-8/lanes/02-local-corpus-join/outputs/local-corpus-join-report.md | existing |
| 21st corpus audit | research/21st-corpus-audit-2026-08-27.md | existing |
| UI component-library requirements | /Users/shaansisodia/SISO_Workspace/SISO_Agency/apps/AutoSaaS/process/10-ui-component-library-requirements.md | existing |
| Future verified agent packet | research/workstreams/P05-living-ui-component-layer/runs/<run-id>/ | planned |