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High-fidelity concept mockups · first draft · July 14, 2026

# The Field is not a canvas. It is the relationship.

One living interface seen at four distances: Studio at the desk, Live in the hand, Express on the page, and Kiduna TV across the room. The HUD rises and falls with attention; the Field never stops being the world underneath.

Enter the Studio concept → Compare directions
Mountain River Trail · route project
Crystal
@crystal
Route steward
Actor
Autumn loop
Project
seasonal-closure.pdf
Ki — Rob added a source to the route Project. It changes one public stop; nothing has been published. clear · 12%
Executive recommendation

## Make agency navigable.

Ordinary software organizes files, feeds, pages, and apps. Kiduna organizes who can do what with whom, in which Organization, through which agent, with what material and proof.

The core interaction is not “open a document.” It is: approach a relationship, gather the living things that matter, state an intent, and let accountable agents carry it forward.
Three directions

## Not three skins. Three distances.

Use the strength of each direction as a zoom level of the same Field. Constellation orients, Relational Terrain is inhabited, and Living Workbench makes.

Far zoom

### Constellation

Distance means relevance; paths mean active relationships. Strong for discovery and ecosystem scale, weaker for authority and dense work.

Recommended base

### Relational Terrain

The Organization is ground. Relationships are chambers. Communities and Alliances are clearings. Projects are worked places.

Near zoom

### Living Workbench

Materials cluster around an intention and agents stand near their work. Strong in Studio; dangerous if it becomes a dressed-up file manager.

First principles

## The rules below the pixels.

Each principle should survive a complete visual redesign. They define the product, not merely this draft.

### The whole screen is the Field

Chrome floats over the ground. HUD opacity is an attention instrument, not a theme preference.

### Relationships are visible nouns

A Relationship holds shared material, directional trust, grants, ACTIONS, and history in one Organization context.

### State arrives

Changed objects brighten once. Absence is recapped. Disconnection is weather. No badge or refresh ritual proves liveness.

### Proximity suggests; intent commits

Gather is reversible. Spatial collision never changes authority by itself.

### Agents are inspectable presences

Every agent answers why, for whom, under what grant, using which sources, and what happened.

### Persona is stable; state is contextual

Visitor, Guest, and Member are ground-facing states relative to the Organization underfoot.

Canonical Field grammar

## The graph becomes a place.

Shape, edge, placement, and label carry meaning before color. Inspection reveals relation, capability, authority, and proof in that order.

Kinship Duna · Organization ground
kap://eco.kiduna.ai
Community · dashed boundary Alliance · solid boundary + table Project · stable worksite Relationship · two-seat chamber Organization · ground and accountability Institution · outside legal principal Artifact · provenance notch
Your Ally is the continuous band and voice. Actors appear where their functions are active. context · 56%
1 Approach

Bring relevant nodes near or select them where they stand.

2 Gather

Enter a reversible ring. Original locations remain ghosted.

3 Name intent

Say what the group should become or do. Type-valid verbs appear.

4 Preview consequence

Read Organization, actor, scope, authority, and reversibility.

5 Act and prove

Run the typed action. Receipt and Record route remain walkable.

Kiduna Studio · PC / Mac

## The Field at working distance.

Studio grants building, composition, deep inspection, integration, package transfer, and acceptance. It is not an IDE, file manager, dashboard, feed, or generic whiteboard.

Screen 01 · interactive

### Project Scene + attention HUD

Try the HUD states, select the Persona, Actor, Google Doc, or artifact, then gather them. Spatial selection stays reversible until an intent is named.

Kiduna Studio kap://eco.kiduna.ai/org/mountain-river-trail/project/autumn-loop
Autumn Loop
Mountain River Trail · route Project · live state
Crystal ↔ Rob · Relationship
ACTION · at the route steward

Let this Actor read the live route brief. It may quote but not edit; the grant expires in 7 days.

Mountain River Trail · Autumn Loop · as Member
The route steward compared the closure notice with the live brief. The source is registered to the state park page; the page itself is unregistered.
Show me what changes if we accept it.
One public stop moves 3.2 miles. No reservation or price changes. I can prepare the Project diff for your desk review.
At this object
Prepare a Project diff. This creates a draft only; it does not publish.
2 living things selected. Gather is reversible until you name the intent. Ki · type / talk
Screen 02

### Ally inspection bench

The bench answers authority and evidence questions before model trivia. Cards are cited outcomes; a member changes them by speaking to the Ally, not by editing hidden settings.

Kiduna Studio · inspection Ally identity · Ki · Source: Crystal
The bench · Ki · Crystal’s Ally
Ki Kinship Intelligence

#### Contract

12 Source-authored statements. Newest: “For this Project, ask before adding any public source to a route.” Every statement names its speaker and time.

#### Grounding

Crystal’s words first; Mountain River Trail Records second; connected Google Docs third; registered public sources last. Ask “why?” and walk the citations.

#### Reach

Public: 318 items · Private: 84 · Secret: 4 · Personal: 27. Counts reveal scope, never content. Personal material cannot be granted.

#### Recent acts

Invoked Route Steward · read public closure notice · proposed one-time Google Doc grant · prepared no external edits. Each act opens its receipt.

“Keep the route Doc private, and let the Actor quote only the closure section.” I’ll read the exact grant back before it changes.focus · cited
Bring

### Incoming Material

A local file lands reversibly. Ki identifies kind, source, and current scope before anything uploads or becomes agent-readable.

Integrate

### Docs and social are nodes

A Google Doc is a live external artifact; a social account is a scoped channel. Neither becomes an invisible global permission.

Collaborate

### Presence is position + act

“Elias is inspecting package 7” is more useful than a cursor. Trusted client-to-client transfers remain scoped and receipted.

Kiduna Live · iOS / Android

## The Field at human distance.

Live is presence, participation, capture, Relationship context, and simple approvals. The selected object stays visible while the HUD rises around it.

9:41 Live
Fellowship of Play · story room
Dave
Susan
playtest clip
Ki — the story room is live. Susan offered a playtest clip to the shared center.

#### Clear

The Field leads. Container, sky rims, and Ally remain; everything else yields.

9:41 Live
Service Alliance · as Guest

##### Matt ↔ you · Relationship

Formed in Kinship Duna. Here, you are a Guest. You share one private Project and no standing grants.

enter room talk live shared work
Pull once more for trust, grants, and proof.

#### Context

The Relationship Lens answers why this Persona is here and what may happen next.

9:41 Live
Fellowship of Play · proposal table
ACTION · proposal 12

##### Adopt the open-table policy

Your equal Member ballot would vote yes. It changes who may host public playtests; it moves no money.

press and hold to vote yes
Say “at my desk later” to leave this intention here.

#### Action in place

Consequence first. The act and “not now.” Long press only where a signature is valid.

9:41 Live
Mountain River Trail · Project voice
Autumn Loop · live channel
3 Personas · not recorded · transcript ephemeral
Crystal
Rob
Matt
Ki can recap, translate, or propose an ACTION. Conversation does not silently become a Record.
talk
Your Ally remains your private path while the room is live.

#### Voice · post-launch layer

Voice belongs to a Relationship or room. Entry, mic, recording, and transcript state stay explicit.

Kiduna TV · connected television

## Shared glass. Phones are the hands.

The TV is for presence, gatherings, story circles, Moves, and shared review. It is driven by one or more Live phones — not a remote-first menu.

Black Love · story circle

### What we carry forward

shared-safe projection · 3 phones joined
family story
audio
Feb 13
artifact
Mama Ayo
Guest
Shared focus is held by Crystal. Everyone else retains private navigation on their phone.
Shared center

### Focus is handed off

One visible holder at a time; no silent focus stealing. Everyone retains personal navigation on their phone.

Multi-person

### Gather together

Each phone can offer a node into the shared ring. The TV shows collective state without ranking individuals.

Hard refusal

### Never on the glass

Personal or secret material, private Ally chat, signatures, money, balances, person detection, or behavior scores.

Kiduna Express · Chrome

## The page stays the page.

Express adds one quiet accountability chip and a lens when asked. It does not repaint, grade, or take possession of the open web.

Mountain State Trail Conditions
←→
https://example.org/trails/autumn-closures
in Mountain River Trail · registered
Seasonal update · October

### Autumn trail closures and alternate routes

Five segments will close for maintenance and wildlife protection. Alternate routes remain available through the north corridor.

registered resource

#### What this traces to

The domain proves control through a DNS record registered with Mountain River Trail. Registration is authority evidence, not a safety score.

- Organization · Mountain River Trail
- Proof · DNS TXT · checked today
- Reading · not recorded
- Current context · route Project

Cross-surface continuity

## Objects do not move between apps. People change distance.

Stable Field addresses, node identities, graph state, and Records create continuity. Each surface projects the same living object according to context and grants.

Express

### Capture

Crystal brings a registered closure page into the Autumn Loop Project with provenance intact.

project/autumn-loop
Live

### Coordinate

Ki reports the conflict. Crystal leaves a voice note and gathers Rob into the Project conversation.

relationship/crystal-rob
Studio

### Inspect and build

Rob walks the Actor’s source chain, adds a Google Doc, and scopes a one-time read grant.

actor/route-steward
TV

### Convene

Three phones offer locations into the shared ring. Private details remain on each person’s phone.

scene/autumn-loop-review
Capability cut

### Same Field, honest limits

The surfaces differ by distance and consequence, not by vocabulary.

Capability | Studio | Live | TV | Express
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Navigate + converse | Full | Full | Shared-safe | Page-contextual
Inspect Persona / Relationship | Deep | Focused | Room-safe | Registration only
Inspect Ally / Actor | Full bench | Summary / defer | No | Trace acting agent
Gather + compose | Full | Small sets | Shared offers | Capture + handoff
Sign authoritative acts | Yes | Simple only | No | Proof handoff
Money authorization | kiduna.ai handoff | kiduna.ai handoff | No | kiduna.ai handoff

Recommended decisions

### What this draft asks us to choose

The full rationale, launch cut, tests, and open questions are in the companion Markdown and Word files.

01
Relational Terrain is the base grammar.

Constellation and Workbench become far and near zooms.

02
Persona is the stable human node.

Visitor, Guest, and Member appear as contextual ground state.

03
Gather is the combine language.

Reversible selection → named intent → consequence preview → Action.

04
Relationship Lens now; chamber when earned.

Thin relationships do not become empty rooms by default.

05
TV is phone-driven and multi-person.

The TV remains shared-safe glass with no remote-first product layer.

06
Voice is designed beyond the launch cut.

It belongs to relationships and rooms, with explicit consent state.

07
Docs and social accounts are scoped nodes.

No invisible global integration or unsupported identity claim.

08
kiduna.ai remains the money boundary.

Registration, wallet, and financial authorization do not leak into the Field.

Source spine + deliberate departures

This concept preserves the Field/HUD law, ACTIONS at their objects, Source-only Ally direction, Organization accountability, relationship-first graph, stable Projects, press-and-hold signatures, registered/unregistered honesty, and kiduna.ai as the authoritative registration and wallet home from the attached Kit.

New here: the three-distance zoom model; Persona as the stable visual node; Gather Ring; Relationship Lens immediately with a chamber earned later; phone-driven multi-person TV; a designed post-launch voice layer; and detailed Google Docs/social object anatomy. Phone-driven TV intentionally replaces the attached Round 8 remote grammar for this concept.