# STREETLIGHT

an agent–human workflow · everything in → ≤ 20 self-documenting nodes out

the public edge of a live system · read-only snapshot · 2026-06-10

under the lamp right now

2026-06-09 · what-is-a-node

The basic unit of work: one self-documenting HTML+markdown surface per topic — movie trailer, not the whole movie.

2026-06-10 · metaphors

Evocative images the whole system steers by — the doctrine shelf.

elsewhere in the dark — all public nodes

- public-landing — the page you're reading
- paving-your-footsteps — desire paths before concrete
- midi-harness — a midi keyboard as agent input device
- glossary — the shared human↔LLM vocabulary

other streets

- blog — jakesimonds.leaflet.pub, longer-form writing
- jklb.social — a bluesky client I made
- mea.media — with Elle Griffin (dormant, worth a look)
- github — where the code lives
- email — jakesimonds@gmail.com

Jake Simonds builds harnesses for LLM-aided knowledge work. Named for the streetlight effect, inverted: instead of searching where the light happens to be, move the light until it falls where the answers are. Hand-set HTML — no framework, no tracking, no build step worth mentioning.