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Guides & Ontology
This section provides practical manuals for building, maintaining, and auditing ARG-compliant systems.
Available Guides
1. Construction & Audit Guide
Building and validating your ARG ontology from the ground up
This guide addresses the critical bootstrap phase — how to design a solid foundational structure before letting the offline loop refine it.
What you'll learn:
- How to design context typologies correctly (stable, transversal, non-redundant)
- The "trees-first" method for rapid taxonomy construction
- Building the node graph progressively to avoid M2M explosion
- Running pre-IA audits that catch structural errors early
- Stop criteria: when to rebuild instead of patching
Key topics:
- Context typology families and anti-patterns
- Cluster and label hierarchy design rules
- Coverage, granularity, redundancy, and contradiction audits
- Practical deliverables to request from domain experts
Read the Construction & Audit Guide
2. Roles, Boundaries & Examples Guide
Understanding the "branches & leaves" model: Cluster / Label / Node / Edge
This guide clarifies the operational distinction between taxonomy (structure) and graph (resolution), and explains why this design protects long-term memory integrity.
What you'll learn:
- The "branches & leaves" metaphor: what each component actually does
- Operational definitions with real-world examples
- When to create a cluster vs label vs node vs edge
- How memory remains stable even as structure evolves
- The only sensitive case: node splits and migration tables
Key topics:
- Cluster: stable domain roots
- Label: hierarchical routing branches
- Node: terminal operational leaves (chunks + actions)
- Edge: movement grammar between leaves
- Memory safety under structural evolution
Read the Roles & Boundaries Guide
Recommended Reading Order
For system architects
- Start with Roles & Boundaries to understand the model
- Then Construction & Audit to apply it
For domain experts
- Start with Construction & Audit for practical steps
- Refer to Roles & Boundaries when questions arise
Quick Reference
- New to ARG? Start with the Introduction
- Need the protocol? See ARG Core
- Understanding taxonomy validation? Read Context Weaver
- Policy setup? Check Policy Manager
Note: These guides focus on ontology design and operational structure. They are complementary to the ARG protocol specification and Context Weaver architecture.