Higher-Order Patterns

Fourteen Pattern Archetypes

Five Bauhaus foundations. Five agent intelligence patterns. Four protocol UIs for MCP and A2A. The complete visual language of algorithmic legibility.

Foundation

01–05 · Bauhaus Core
01
AGENCY INDICATOR
The Level

Five levels of AI agency, each with its own color, label, and interaction weight. The visual language of control: who acts, how much, under what authority.

RECOMMEND
AI ranks — you choose
2
02
TEMPORAL SCALE
The Timeline

Making algorithmic time perceivable. From 7ms LLM tokens to 10-year vault archives — the full temporal range made visible.

7ms
LLM token
80ms
Snap interaction
1s
API response
30s
Agent task
5min
Meeting brief
1hr
Training batch
1day
Vault indexing
1yr
Model training
10yr
Vault age
HUMAN PERCEPTIONALGORITHMIC TIME →
03
VAULT BOUNDARY
The Membrane

The threshold between sovereign and external. Crossing should feel like crossing — not an invisible permission grant.

YOUR VAULT
LOCAL · SOVEREIGN
DATA STAYS HERE
EXTERNAL
THIRD-PARTY
REQUIRES PERMISSION
04
AUDIT TRAIL
The Witness

An append-only immutable log of agent actions. Every entry: who acted, when, what, under what authority.

AUDIT TRAIL3 ENTRIES · APPEND-ONLY
07:00:12
morning-intelGenerated briefing
SCHEDULED
07:00:45
vault-ragIndexed 3 new documents
AUTONOMOUS
08:14:03
meeting-prepPrepared agenda for 9am
DELEGATED
05
AGENCY STACK
The Chorus

Multiple agents working in visible parallel lanes. The structure of multi-agent orchestration made legible — not a black box.

AGENT CHORUS0/3 COMPLETE
morning-intel
IDLE
Synthesizing vault + calendar
meeting-prep
IDLE
Preparing 9am stakeholder brief
pplgraph
IDLE
Enriching 3 contact profiles

Agent Intelligence

06–10 · Identity, Scope, Confidence
06
AGENT CARD
The Identity

Compact representation of an agent's identity, current state, trust level, and active permissions. Click to reveal scope.

MI
Morning Intelligence
32s ago
STANDARDclaude-sonnet-4-6
PA
Pendo Analyst
4m ago
LIMITED
O
Orchestrator
now
ORCHESTRATOR
07
PERMISSION MATRIX
The Scope

Visual authorization table — resources × operations. Every permission grant is a cell. Sovereignty as feeling, made scannable.

RESOURCEREADWRITEDELETEEXECUTE
calendar
vault
pplgraph
pendo
email
read
write
delete
execute
08
CONFIDENCE METER
The Epistemic State

When Nodus makes a claim, the confidence level is visible — not hidden. LOW / MODERATE / HIGH with semantic color and threshold markers.

Churn prediction — Account #4821LOW CONFIDENCE (22%)
Meeting sentiment — Feb 21 1:1MODERATE CONFIDENCE (67%)
At-risk classification — GTreasury HealthHIGH CONFIDENCE (91%)
09
PROVENANCE CHAIN
The Lineage

Where did this insight come from? Source → transform → inference → output. Every datum has a traceable origin.

How was this health score calculated?
SOURCEPendo account export
TRANSFORMpendo_analytics → account_healthrule-based
INFERENCEAt-risk classificationclaude-sonnet-4-687% CONF
OUTPUTHealth score: 31/100 — CRITICAL
10
CONSENT FLOW
The Ceremony

Granting AI access is a decision, not a checkbox. A multi-step ceremony that makes the weight of delegation perceptible.

1. WHAT
2. SCOPE
3. CONFIRM
Morning Intelligence

Access your calendar and vault to generate a daily briefing with meeting context, action items, and relationship intelligence.

DELEGATION
AI acts — you review
3

Protocol UI

11–14 · MCP + A2A
11
MCP TOOL CALL
The Invocation

Every MCP tool invocation rendered as a structured, inspectable event. Tool name, server, I/O, duration, status — all visible.

vault_searchlab-vault42ms
fireflies_get_transcriptclaude_ai_Fireflies1204ms
vault_writelab-vault
12
MCP SERVER STATUS
The Infrastructure

All registered MCP servers in a scannable grid. State, tool count, last ping. Click to reveal the tool catalog.

MCP SERVERS
lab-vault
5 tools1s ago
claude_ai_Fireflies
7 tools4s ago
claude_ai_Linear
24 tools2m ago
mcp__fetch
1 tools30s ago
claude_ai_Figma
11 tools
AUTH EXPIRED
plugin_github
31 tools8s ago
13
A2A HANDOFF
The Delegation

When one agent delegates to another, the handoff is visible: who → who, task, authority type, acceptance state. Agent legibility.

O
Orchestrator
TRUST 5
MI
Meeting Intelligence
TRUST 3
DELEGATEDIdle
TASK

Extract action items and relationship intelligence from Fireflies transcript #8821 (Feb 21 Alan 1:1).

RESULT

14 action items extracted. 3 relationship signals surfaced. Briefing ready.

MI
Morning Intelligence
TRUST 3
PA
Pendo Analyst
TRUST 2
DIRECTActive
TASK

Get health scores for the 12 accounts flagged in the KKR renewal pipeline.

14
AGENT TIMELINE
The Record

Chronological execution history of all agent actions. Filter by type. Expand rows for detail. The full audit trail.

ALL (6)TOOL (3)HANDOFF (1)INFERENCE (1)COMPLETE (1)
COMPLETEorchestratorMorning briefing complete — 5 actions, 14 items
TOOLvault-writervault_write: morning-briefing-2026-02-23.md67ms
INFERENCEpendo-analystAccount health classification (12 accounts)890ms
HANDOFForchestratorDelegated → pendo-analyst: KKR pipeline health
TOOLmorning-intelfireflies_get_transcript: #88211204ms
TOOLmorning-intelvault_search: daily briefing context42ms
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