Field Guide

+Streetlight−

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▶ 10-minute tour The fastest way in — watch Streetlight work end to end. watch → 📺 10-minute demos A playlist of short, focused walkthroughs. playlist → ✍ The blog Long-form writing on how and why this is built. read → ⬇ Bring Your Own Agent Download the vault zip and point your own agent at it. download .zip →
+ BUILDER the additive role research · code · nodes new components // the inhale − GARDENER the subtractive role prune · clean · rehome delete · archive // the exhale THE FIELD ( ~10 nodes ) [+] [ ] [+] [x] [ ] [+] [ ] [ ] [x] [+] [ ] [+] cap ≈ human attention · each node ≈ 5% signal kept under the lamp
The Drain Funnel the streetlight effect in motion: noise to clarity NOISE voice memos viewer comments drain.md scraps half-thoughts the messy stream pours in ATOMIZE break the stream into atomic units CLARITY node html · md node html · md node html · md clean, structured nodes
PACE LAYERS · slow → fast L1 · AGENTS.md L2 · SKILLs L3 · the Shelves L4 · Nodes L5 · Archived
Components as Lego Blocks snap together to compose a node 16-block registry single source of truth title prose list diagram table code quote image compare to-do link metric callout embed faq footer snap in drop into any node NODE a whole template title⧉ 💬 diagram⧉ 💬 list⧉ 💬 each block: ⧉ copy-context · 💬 comment affordances on every component ＋ builder adds blocks & nodes － gardener prunes & tidies blocks
Wander the nodes
glossaryThe Streetlight glossary super-node — one scannable surface defining every special term, metaphor, and bent-meaning word in the system.2026-07-06
shelvesThe Shelves — the L3 pace layer (a 📚 lens), where floating thoughts land before being routed, promoted, or cut. Five switchable shelves in two clumps — work-down (principles · complaints · wishes) and records (metaphors · wins) — plus the inspiration library as the reference shelf. Documented by the `shelves` SKILL.2026-07-05
glass-chessGlass Chess — a playable chess engine whose entire brain is three visible, adjustable rules (material, center, safety). Play White against it, watch its search reasoning rendered in plain English.2026-07-04
node-history-storyThe historical story of the Streetlight node — what it started as (a review tile holding human.md), what it drifted into (the proposal factory, 60 un-promoted skill candidates, empty session husks), and what it should be now (a thin view over running work, promotable to a lens).2026-07-02
streetlight-overviewthe front door — what Streetlight is and what to do here2026-07-02
arena-elo-animated-currentanimated bar-race of the LMArena leaderboard, continuing Simon Willison's demo2026-06-28
blog-llm-as-instrumentblog-harness surface for the 'LLM is an Instrument' essay2026-06-28
danger-zoneblog post — oops, all LLM analogies2026-06-28
delightful-figure-skater-loopsinteractive figure-skater widget — pull the arms in, watch ω rise2026-06-28
diagram-slide-ruleinteractive slide rule — multiplication as physically adding logarithms2026-06-28
llm-is-an-instrumentthe 'LLM is an Instrument' essay, finished page2026-06-28
loop-speed-formulaloop speed as a ratio — LLM output over human input2026-06-28
midi-harnessa midi keyboard as an agent input device2026-06-28
proposed-tweet-length-summariesproposed AGENTS.md principle — tweet-length summaries2026-06-28
robot-frameworkBlowing an OODA loop up to walk-around size — big in space and time — so you can step inside it and tune the knobs.2026-06-28
streetlight-inputshow the unstructured stream gets in — the drain pattern2026-06-28
streetlight-philosophyoperating doctrine — who owns which part of the loop2026-06-28
streetlight-surfacesone vault, three readers — viewer, Obsidian, agents2026-06-28
streetlight-the-nodethe complete spec for the node, Streetlight's basic unit2026-06-28