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AI Session Map

Looks done — ready to closeThe experiment and the line refactor landed and later cycles build on both; only the Outcome is missing.

To close: Write the Outcome. · Move it from Active in CYCLES.md to HISTORY.md.

last activity Apr 3

Why we did this

AI agent monitoring records every server called, file touched and host contacted, but shows it as tables. A map could show the shape of a whole session at a glance.

What happened

One agent session now reads as a map: the agent in the middle, with rugs for MCP servers, skills, files and outside hosts. Lines also took charge of their own look.

New in this cycleOne agent session draws as the agent plus a rug for each kind of thing it touched.

Documents

With file names, on their own page →

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Pages

  • /experiments/c21.ai-session-map/ (local dev)
At a glance
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Who helped
MPMark ParsonQpoint team

What changed

The two changes that matter most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.

  1. 1

    One agent session draws as the agent plus a rug for each kind of thing it touched.

    A session as a map · came from Mark Parson

  2. 2

    Each line now sets up its own arrows and glow from one settings object; the map no longer micromanages them.

    Lines manage their own look · came from Mark Parson

Also in this cycle
  • A File Access grouping splits the files the agent read from the ones it wrote. New in this cycle

How we got here

Each change, traced back to the conversation it came from. A solid mark means the record names the source; a dashed one was matched by the draft and waits for review.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

No ruling needed: the work itself is the change.

So now

One agent session draws as the agent plus a rug for each kind of thing it touched.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

qmap-c21-D1 Lines own their visual settings: the map hands each line one settings object and the line applies it. — Mark Parson

So now

Each line now sets up its own arrows and glow from one settings object; the map no longer micromanages them.

Thanks to

People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.

MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Drew an AI agent session as a map

The record names nobody; credited from git authorship (the April 2026 batch commit for c18–c22).

All images

Every picture from this cycle. Click any one to step through them all.

The pairs

A session as a mapNew in this cycle
Reads and writes apartNew in this cycle

Everything captured · 9

The full record 0 decisions · 6 key-change entries · 442 words · 9 captures

The record stays as written, for agents and for audit: Key Changes, every decision, the artifacts and the visual record.

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