Intelligence · The map

The map.

The routing layer behind the section. Every topic the work covers, the discipline it belongs to, and where it stands — live, in progress, or forming. The honest worklist behind the disciplines, kept in the open.

On this site

The disciplines and what is routed to each.

Each discipline owns a set of topics. The status says what is shipped versus what is still taking shape. Cross-links note where a topic also touches another discipline.

Observe

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
Structured field awareness
Signal ingested, triaged, scored, and attributed into a current operating picture. The Dispatch.
Live

Context

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
On-device retrieval over the semantic index Edge · Govern
Grounding answers in local, attributed content rather than the model’s guesses.
In progress
Personal context and grounding Govern
What an app and the system already know about the user, retrieved safely and with provenance.
Forming

Edge

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
Governed inference on Apple silicon Govern · Silicon
Determinism, isolation, typed interfaces, and the propose–authorize boundary on the device.
Live
On-device foundation models in apps Cloud · Govern
Native Swift access to on-device models, multimodal prompts, and tool calling.
In progress

Cloud

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
Private Cloud Compute as the escalation path Edge · Govern
Server-grade Apple models reached without the usual cloud-API burden, on the device’s privacy terms.
In progress
Model routing across providers Govern
One Swift API over on-device, PCC, and server providers — the model swappable, the app in charge.
In progress

Connect

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
App Intents, App Schemas, and Siri Context · Developer
Exposing an app’s content and actions so the system can find and invoke them.
In progress
Visual intelligence and on-screen awareness Observe
Letting a person refer to what is on screen, and connecting intelligence to camera and context.
Forming

Govern

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
Deterministic authority and the Laws
The kernel that proves, before each action reaches the world, that it is permitted.
Live
Evaluations as governance benchmarks Develop
Stating behavioral guarantees as checkable benchmarks instead of prose.
In progress
Observability for agent behavior
Watching, profiling, and debugging what a model actually does inside the app.
Forming
Securing agentic features Develop
Mitigating the risks introduced when software begins to act — the anchor for ClawLaw.
In progress

Develop

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
The governed agentic coding workflow Govern · Developer
Plan, constrain, generate, review — building with agents without surrendering authorship. ClawLaw.
In progress
Agents in Xcode (MCP and ACP) Developer
Planning, implementation, testing, and triage as agentic steps — extensible through plugins.
In progress

Learn

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
Forming the operator
The arts that keep a person capable of commanding intelligent machines: fluency, judgment, command.
Live
Routed off the Intelligence pages

Where the rest of the stack lives.

Some work belongs to the compute substrate or the craft of building, not to a discipline of intelligence. It is tracked here but lives on the Silicon and Developer pages.

Silicon

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
Core AI — custom models on device Edge
Bringing and optimizing your own models on Apple silicon through a Swift API.
Forming
MLX — distributed inference and training Edge · Cloud
Local inference, research, and multi-Mac training on Apple silicon.
Forming
Metal — tensors and neural rendering
Custom ML operations and real-time neural rendering on the GPU.
Forming

Developer

Open →
Live In progress Forming / planned
Xcode, Device Hub, and Xcode Cloud Develop
The toolchain and workflow of building — where agentic coding lands as a daily practice.
Forming
Swift, SwiftUI, and SwiftData
The language and frameworks the rest of the stack is built on.
Forming
Server-side Swift and gRPC Cloud
The same language carried to the server — real-time apps and services.
Forming