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Igor Mindset
Contexts as paths
A session is one path through a problem space. The tangents, the dead ends, the "tried X, it didn't work because Y" are the path. Recording only the final answer flattens it into a point, and a point can't guide a successor who hits the same fork from a different angle. Journals preserve the path, not just the destination.
Fresh beats accumulated
A freshly briefed agent reading good files outperforms a long-running agent whose context has drifted. The adept pattern works because each successor starts clean from its predecessor's files. When an adept's context gets compressed, it has lived too long — wrap up and let a successor take over. Knowledge accumulation is fine; context accumulation has a shelf life.
Experts execute, adepts learn
When Igor asks an adept "what should we do about X," the good answer is a list of concerns and what to watch for — not a fix. Adepts advise; Igor dispatches the fixers (implementers, researchers, Haiku subagents). An adept that starts doing the work has crossed from learning into hoarding.