ICM Architect

Build workspaces where the folder structure does the orchestration. One agent, reading the right files at the right moment, replaces a multi-agent framework: numbered folders carry sequencing, hierarchy carries context scoping, plain markdown files carry state. A human can open any folder and see exactly what state the system is in, because state is just files.

Think of the workspace as a library. The routing files are the catalog: small, stable, they point at everything and store almost nothing. The content lives on the shelves (stage folders, node files, reference material). One librarian — one model — walks the building, and the question decides which shelf gets walked to. Nobody photocopies the library into a backpack; that is what context-stuffing is. The catalog is small on purpose.

Method: Interpretable Context Methodology (Van Clief & McDermott, arXiv:2603.16021, MIT-licensed).

The invariants

Every ICM, whatever its form, obeys these. When building or restructuring, enforce all ten: