Ideas
PartialBubbles and ideas as a hierarchy. Capture, link, promote into a project. Runs on a workstation.
Ideas is the entry point for thinking. Two primitives: bubbles, which are containers, and ideas, which are the content inside them. It is the space the Brain knows best — 34 idea capabilities and 13 bubble capabilities in the registry.
The model
- Bubble
- A top-level container. You enter one, work inside it, and leave. Bubbles can be evaluated, searched and promoted.
- Idea
- A node inside a bubble. Ideas can be linked to each other and unlinked again.
- Promotion
- The handoff out of Ideas: a bubble judged ready becomes a project, carrying its content with it.
What works today
- Create, read, update, delete and list bubbles
- Create, update, delete, link and unlink ideas
- Evaluate a bubble and promote it into a project
- Data is stored in the database on our server; the space itself runs on a workstation
What survived and why
The surviving implementation is a single MCP server of about 830 lines exposing 13 bubble and idea tools. It survived because it sat behind a protocol boundary rather than being imported directly by the rest of the system, so routing into the space continued to work against a much smaller surface.
Most idea operations are now executed by the Brain directly against the database, each with a validator, rather than through the specific functions that used to back them. They work. They do less.