Initial Open Questions discovery
Working inventory for unresolved-work reconsideration, not a prioritized backlog or an assessment of the questions.
- Captured: 2026-11-08.
- Repository HEAD:
89dd98770eec00359da3a3aee6a8866ea51c0658; scanned working files. - Scope: Markdown files under
kb/theory/, recursively. - Result: 146 matching headings in 146 files, not a count of individual questions.
- No question bodies have been adjudicated by this inventory. A matched question may already be answered or superseded; heading matches in examples can also require exclusion on inspection.
- Misses questions in prose or differently named sections, other collections, log entries, ledger entries, proposals and workshops. No completeness claim beyond this literal heading search. Paths and line numbers can change.
Reproduce the discovery with:
rg -ni '^#{1,6}[[:space:]]+.*open questions' kb/theory --glob '*.md' | sort
Entry points
- theory/a-better-factory-claim-compares-operative-states.md — line 73:
## Open Questions - theory/a-bootstrap-fits-the-bitter-lesson-only-if-learning-outgrows-it.md — line 199:
## Open Questions - theory/access-burden-and-transformation-burden-are-distinct-query-dimensions.md — line 36:
## Open questions - theory/accumulation-counts-dependence-through-the-retained-result.md — line 44:
## Open Questions - theory/a-citation-cannot-assert-more-fidelity-than-its-capture-preserved.md — line 38:
## Open Questions - theory/a-claim-without-external-assessment-carries-three-obligations.md — line 172:
## Open Questions - theory/a-complete-theory-path-does-not-establish-improved-capacity.md — line 179:
## Open Questions - theory/addressability-grain-sets-a-matched-selective-read-floor.md — line 76:
## Open Questions - theory/a-derived-copy-of-recomputable-truth-must-be-checked-or-absent.md — line 54:
## Open Questions - theory/ad-hoc-explanation-can-be-rational-when-error-is-cheap-and-local.md — line 80:
## Open Questions - theory/ad-hoc-prompts-extend-the-system-without-schema-changes.md — line 46:
## Open Questions - theory/a-fixed-model-house-must-retain-missing-procedures-for-theory-use.md — line 158:
## Open Questions - theory/a-functioning-kb-needs-a-workshop-layer-not-just-a-library.md — line 70:
## Open questions - theory/agents-md-should-be-organized-as-a-control-plane.md — line 122:
## Open questions - theory/a-goal-holding-interpreter-fails-soft-workarounds-tax-a-bounded-budget.md — line 33:
## Open Questions - theory/a-guard-against-a-conjectured-requirement-removes-the-experiment-that.md — line 165:
## Open Questions - theory/a-knowledge-base-should-support-fluid-resolution-switching.md — line 95:
## Open questions - theory/alexander-patterns-and-knowledge-system-design.md — line 36:
## Open questions - theory/a-linked-note-discharges-its-own-grounding-so-a-citing-note-owes.md — line 97:
## Open Questions - theory/a-method-ceiling-bounds-the-method-not-the-transfer-already-made.md — line 46:
## Open Questions - theory/an-insufficient-summary-precedes-the-source-rather-than-replacing.md — line 66:
## Open Questions - theory/an-omitted-loop-function-and-a-frozen-one-need-different-repairs.md — line 81:
## Open Questions - theory/a-note-is-an-atomic-step-relative-to-the-check-that-reads-it.md — line 219:
## Open Questions - theory/any-symbolic-program-with-llm-calls-is-a-select-call-program.md — line 93:
## Open questions - theory/a-proposal-selection-loop-requires-search-evaluation-and-retention.md — line 83:
## Open Questions - theory/a-proximate-target-is-checked-for-achievement-not-for-warrant.md — line 57:
## Open Questions - theory/areas-exist-because-useful-operations-require-reading-notes-together.md — line 128:
## Open Questions - theory/artifacts-must-preserve-named-choice-scope.md — line 205:
## Open Questions - theory/attention-can-be-reused-as-a-kind-of-soft-reference-count.md — line 56:
## Open Questions - theory/automated-synthesis-is-missing-good-oracles.md — line 45:
## Open questions - theory/bitter-lesson-selects-against-unearned-reach-not-against-structure.md — line 55:
## Open Questions - theory/bounded-context-orchestration-model.md — line 67:
## Scope and open questions - theory/brainstorming-how-explanatory-reach-informs-kb-design.md — line 43:
## Open questions - theory/brainstorming-how-to-enrich-web-search.md — line 68:
## Open Questions - theory/brainstorming-how-to-test-whether-pairwise-comparison-can-harden.md — line 155:
## Open questions - theory/brainstorming-maintainability-oracles-for-agentic-development.md — line 172:
## Open Questions - theory/candidacy-evidence-licenses-escalation-not-acceptance.md — line 31:
## Open Questions - theory/changing-requirements-conflate-genuine-change-with-disambiguation.md — line 43:
## Open Questions - theory/cheap-adoption-and-weak-retirement-accumulate-cost.md — line 44:
## Open Questions - theory/citing-retained-theory-at-the-decision-point-is-a-mediation-trace.md — line 49:
## Open Questions - theory/claim-modality-is-the-inference-form-of-the-refuter.md — line 24:
## Open Questions - theory/claim-routed-reading-may-beat-reading-first-for-synthesis-notes.md — line 34:
## Open questions - theory/claw-learning-loops-must-improve-action-capacity-not-just-retrieval.md — line 34:
## Open Questions - theory/commitment-not-derivation-creates-new-ground-truth.md — line 76:
## Open Questions - theory/compiling-coordination-preserves-primitive-not-aggregate-authority.md — line 47:
## Open Questions - theory/compounding-is-tested-in-later-improvement-not-by-the-accepting-metric.md — line 144:
## Open Questions - theory/computationally-directed-self-improvement-is-a-reallocation.md — line 69:
## Open Questions - theory/context-contamination-operates-below-an-agents-compliance-reasoning.md — line 45:
## Open Questions - theory/conversation-vs-prompt-refinement-in-agent-to-agent-coordination.md — line 46:
## Open Questions - theory/current-task-fit-alone-does-not-warrant-costly-entrenchment.md — line 167:
## Open Questions - theory/decomposition-heuristics-for-bounded-context-scheduling.md — line 75:
## Open Questions - theory/dependency-locality-supports-ordering-heuristics-not-a-reading-cost.md — line 70:
## Open Questions - theory/derivation-and-inheritance-give-starting-warrant-earns-scope.md — line 61:
## Open Questions theory/descriptive-link-labels-may-supply-claim-self-sufficiency.md(historical entry; note subsequently deleted) — line 38:## Open questions- theory/documentation-generates-the-system-rather-than-describing-it.md — line 66:
## Open Questions - theory/domain-pricing-routes-an-exception-to-idealization-assessment.md — line 63:
## Open Questions - theory/elicitation-requires-maintained-question-generation-systems.md — line 72:
## Open questions - theory/enforcement-without-structured-recovery-is-incomplete.md — line 55:
## Open questions - theory/evidence/commonplace-revision-used-theory-guided-computational-search.md — line 130:
## Open Questions - theory/evolving-understanding-needs-holistic-rewrite-not-composition.md — line 48:
## Open questions theory/execution-shaping-determines-directory-placement.md(historical entry; note subsequently deleted) — line 36:## Open Questions- theory/final-task-success-does-not-establish-intended-path-health.md — line 62:
## Open Questions - theory/first-principles-analysis-maps-design-space-before-selection.md — line 58:
## Open Questions - theory/first-principles-reasoning-selects-for-explanatory-reach-over.md — line 41:
## Open Questions - theory/flat-memory-predicts-specific-cross-contamination-failures-that-are.md — line 53:
## Open questions - theory/full-identity-keys-decouple-a-batch-protocol-from-its-packing-axis.md — line 22:
## Open Questions - theory/holding-the-client-fixed-exports-the-least-warrantable-decisions.md — line 51:
## Open Questions - theory/improvements-can-accumulate-without-compounding.md — line 42:
## Open Questions - theory/increasing-computational-autonomy-relocates-human-effort.md — line 55:
## Open Questions - theory/information-value-is-observer-relative.md — line 58:
## Open Questions - theory/instantiation-alone-cannot-model-agent-learning-across-sessions.md — line 60:
## Open Questions - theory/instructions-are-typed-callables.md — line 37:
## Open questions - theory/knowledge-storage-does-not-imply-contextual-activation.md — line 66:
## Open Questions - theory/learning-inside-a-fixed-decomposition-inherits-its-mistakes.md — line 47:
## Open Questions - theory/legal-drafting-solves-the-same-problem-as-context-engineering.md — line 63:
## Open questions - theory/linking-theory.md — line 77:
## Open questions - theory/links-encode-conditional-possibilities-not-obligations.md — line 94:
## Open questions - theory/link-strength-is-encoded-in-position-and-prose.md — line 58:
## Open questions - theory/llm-generation-relaxes-goals-where-human-writing-stalls.md — line 44:
## Open questions - theory/llm-learning-phases-fall-between-human-learning-modes.md — line 42:
## Open Questions - theory/llm-output-deviation-requires-three-way-diagnosis.md — line 68:
## Open Questions - theory/llm-recompute-cost-inverts-the-store-vs-recompute-default.md — line 38:
## Open Questions - theory/machinery-persists-by-warrant-not-position-in-a-reflective-loop.md — line 50:
## Open Questions - theory/measuring-autonomy-well-enough-to-see-it-improve-is-an-open-problem.md — line 20:
## Open Questions - theory/methodological-and-computational-closure-track-different-changes.md — line 166:
## Open Questions - theory/minimum-viable-vocabulary-is-the-naming-set-that-most-reduces.md — line 24:
## Open Questions - theory/near-decomposability-may-make-local-inspection-affordable.md — line 74:
## Open Questions - theory/notes-need-quality-scores-to-scale-curation.md — line 53:
## Open questions - theory/open-domain-memory-retention-needs-a-declared-output-spec.md — line 33:
## Open Questions - theory/open-ended-improvement-allocates-search-before-evaluation.md — line 101:
## Open Questions - theory/open-ended-theory-learning-and-factory-learning-close-the-same.md — line 192:
## Open Questions - theory/operational-signals-that-a-component-is-a-relaxing-candidate.md — line 38:
## Open questions - theory/opposed-recompute-factors-do-not-decide-documentation-segmentation.md — line 62:
## Open Questions - theory/oracle-accumulation-improves-the-selection-environment.md — line 34:
## Open Questions - theory/oracle-strength-spectrum.md — line 61:
## Open questions - theory/orchestration-needs-privilege-quarantine-not-permission-scope.md — line 31:
## Open Questions - theory/process-structure-and-output-structure-are-independent-levers.md — line 36:
## Open questions - theory/program-theory-sustains-search-under-delayed-feedback.md — line 171:
## Open Questions - theory/project-theory-relates-new-demands-to-existing-organization.md — line 55:
## Open Questions - theory/promotion-selects-for-unreliable-activation-and-the-regress-ends-only.md — line 76:
## Open Questions - theory/prompt-ablation-converts-human-insight-to-deployable-framing.md — line 53:
## Open questions - theory/proposals/retained-theories-compared-with-retained-traces-under-resource-limits.md — line 174:
## Open questions - theory/prototype-standing-is-revision-cost-binding-plus-lost-investment.md — line 35:
## Open Questions - theory/psychology-to-agent-transfer-needs-per-principle-failure-mode-testing.md — line 88:
## Open questions - theory/quality-signals-for-kb-evaluation.md — line 132:
## Open questions - theory/reasoning-production-is-not-reasoning-evaluation.md — line 32:
## Open Questions - theory/reflection-buys-addressability.md — line 67:
## Open Questions - theory/reflection-makes-retained-lessons-second-order.md — line 39:
## Open Questions - theory/reflective-coverage-is-graded-across-representational-forms.md — line 81:
## Open Questions - theory/research/adaptation-agentic-ai-analysis.md — line 91:
## Open questions - theory/retained-theories-may-improve-sample-efficiency.md — line 215:
## Open Questions - theory/reviewers-share-the-fields-prior-so-interpret-findings-by-stance.md — line 89:
## Open Questions - theory/revising-an-improvement-objective-is-licensed-from-outside-it.md — line 49:
## Open Questions - theory/revision-guided-by-rationale-needs-faithfulness-not-just-legibility.md — line 35:
## Open Questions - theory/rlm-tendril-and-llm-do-place-symbolic-work-at-different-persistence.md — line 37:
## Open Questions - theory/scaling-absorbs-scaffolding-at-fixed-difficulty-not-at-the-frontier.md — line 40:
## Open Questions - theory/self-improvement-is-relative-to-a-declared-objective.md — line 48:
## Open Questions - theory/soft-bound-traditions-as-sources-for-context-engineering-strategies.md — line 87:
## Open questions - theory/soft-degradation-often-binds-before-the-hard-cap-when-evidence-fits.md — line 32:
### Open questions - theory/solve-low-degree-of-freedom-subproblems-first-to-avoid-blocking.md — line 31:
## Open Questions - theory/spec-mining-as-codification.md — line 45:
## Open questions - theory/stale-self-description-conceals-its-own-staleness.md — line 55:
## Open Questions - theory/statecharts-and-programs-differ-in-what-they-show-not-compute.md — line 61:
## Open Questions - theory/structure-inference-needs-capture-at-the-decision-surface.md — line 26:
## Open Questions - theory/synthesis-is-not-error-correction.md — line 52:
## Open questions - theory/system-use-selects-theory-fit-without-a-fixed-oracle.md — line 55:
## Open Questions - theory/technical-constraints-make-kb-objective-choice-engineering.md — line 62:
## Open Questions - theory/the-augmentation-automation-boundary-is-discrimination-not-accuracy.md — line 45:
## Open questions - theory/the-bitter-lesson-defense-portfolio-has-one-load-bearing-member.md — line 149:
## Open Questions - theory/the-bitter-lesson-selects-production-methods-not-representational.md — line 75:
## Open Questions - theory/the-four-field-record-exposes-an-efficiency-security-and-sovereignty.md — line 34:
## Open Questions - theory/theory-and-capacity-building-make-the-same-kind-of-commitment.md — line 57:
## Open Questions - theory/theory-and-methodology-form-a-two-layer-execution-system.md — line 54:
## Open Questions - theory/the-self-improving-system-definition-classifies-its-boundary-cases.md — line 39:
## Open Questions - theory/topology-isolation-and-verification-form-a-causal-chain-for-reliable.md — line 56:
## Open Questions - theory/trace-extracted-memory-earns-authority-per-operation-not-at-capture.md — line 58:
## Open Questions - theory/traditional-software-can-bracket-executor-conformance-llm-systems.md — line 67:
## Open Questions - theory/two-context-boundaries-govern-collection-operations.md — line 59:
## Open questions - theory/unattended-work-needs-the-functions-that-interaction-supplied.md — line 42:
## Open Questions - theory/unformalized-improvements-need-a-pre-formal-stage-in-the-loop.md — line 44:
## Open Questions - theory/unified-calling-conventions-enable-bidirectional-refactoring.md — line 55:
## Open Questions - theory/unit-testing-llm-instructions-requires-mocking-the-tool-boundary.md — line 50:
## Open questions - theory/usefulness-autonomy-warrant-and-power-are-separate-dimensions.md — line 60:
## Open Questions - theory/verification-needs-a-typed-target-before-it-needs-an-oracle.md — line 46:
## Open Questions - theory/vocabulary-collisions-prevented-at-write-time-not-read-time.md — line 86:
## Open Questions - theory/warranted-transfer-leaves-people-the-hardest-to-warrant-decisions.md — line 146:
## Open Questions