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qmap · c29activestarted Nov 3Auto draft — not yet reviewed

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Waiting to be picked uplast activity Nov 4

Next: Pick a tool treatment, add flows for the other five scenarios, and swap the grey balls for pawns as they get drawn.

Why we did this

The map's data pipeline works, but what it draws doesn't yet read clearly: what belongs inside what, what matters most, and what things are called.

What happened

Not finished yet: one example story now reads as nested floors, with tools still being compared four ways. Nothing is committed except design's handoff note.

In wordsThe scene is organized into AI Services, Internet and the Endpoint, with the account and project as floors inside the Endpoint.
At a glance
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What changed

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

  1. 1

    The scene is organized into AI Services, Internet and the Endpoint, with the account and project as floors inside the Endpoint.

    Floors that say where things live · came from Mark Parson

  2. 2

    A comparison page shows the same story with tools as labels on lines, a tool belt, an expanding stack and a Tools box.

    Four ways to show tools · came from Mark Parson

Also in this cycle
  • Everything is a grey ball with its name on hover, except the helper: a grey character in a red hat. In words
  • Rug colors, borders and label type can be changed live from the controls panel, and the page opens in a flat, top-down view. In words

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

qmap-c29-D1 Group the scene into zones, with the endpoint holding the person, the provider account (harness, tools) and the repo (files, skills). — Mark Parson

qmap-c29-D2 Give AI services their own top-level rug, outside Internet, even though they are on the internet. — Mark Parson

So now

The scene is organized into AI Services, Internet and the Endpoint, with the account and project as floors inside the Endpoint.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

qmap-c29-D4 Don't draw tools as 3D objects with as much space as a harness; put MCP tools on their server's rug. — Mark Parson

So now

A comparison page shows the same story with tools as labels on lines, a tool belt, an expanding stack and a Tools box.

Thanks to

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

MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Tuned the map by hand

Set the rug hierarchy, picked the helper character, and called for tools to take less space than a helper.

All images

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

The pairs

Everything captured · 0

The full record 4 decisions · 16 key-change entries · 2,657 words · 36 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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