Working Set

A working set by Sirius Ctrl

Some ideas need to run.Others need to be written down.

A working set on agents, interfaces, and making complex systems legible.

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Classical Atlas map story showing the Sicilian expedition as a blue band from Athens around the Peloponnese to Syracuse, beside a Chinese story card

Classical AtlasNew

Interactive map stories about the classical Greek and Roman world, starting with the Peloponnesian War.

Interactive lab
fmtview terminal interface displaying highlighted structured data

fmtviewNew

Fast structured-file viewing, search, highlighting, and diffing in the terminal.

CLI tool

Current threads

Questions in progress, expressed through software and writing.

Interfaces beyond the transcript

AI output becomes more useful when it can be moved, inspected, and recombined.

Freeform ArtifactsLattice

Agents with observable state

Autonomy is easier to trust when execution leaves a durable, inspectable trace.

FiascoTowerLab