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OIP Thinker Reference
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What this hub is: the hierarchical map of 60 Kimi-sourced OIP thinker/protocol articles, all self-explaining and cross-linked.
Traversal: open a shelf below, then any leaf. Every leaf links back here.
OIP Thinker Reference
§SELF — oip-thinker-reference
What this page is: the root hub for the OIP thinker and protocol concept tree imported from the Kimi Agent reference pack. What it explains: how the articles are shelved (Thinkers, Protocol Concepts, Lineages, Token Drop Guides) and how to traverse them without prior context. Why read it: one page that makes the full set navigable — hierarchical, self-explaining, voxel-linked.
How to use this tree
- Start at OIP root if you need the protocol itself.
- Pick a shelf below.
- Open any leaf. Each leaf has §SELF, Up the tree, Related siblings, and machine URLs.
- For graph shape, read What Is a Voxel Graph.
Shelves
Thinkers (33 articles)
Intellectual lineage: people whose work OIP inherits or answers.
- Alan Kay — The Big Idea Is Messaging
- Alfred North Whitehead — Process and Reality
- J.L. Austin and John Searle — Speech Acts
- Barbara Liskov — Abstract Data Types and Distributed Consensus
- Bram Cohen — BitTorrent and Content-Addressed Protocol Design
- Butler Lampson — Protection and Access Control
- Carl Hewitt — The Actor Model
- Charles Sanders Peirce — Signs, Abduction, and Pragmatism
- Doug Engelbart — Augmenting Human Intellect
- Eric Brewer — The CAP Theorem
- Gilbert Simondon — Technical Objects and Individuation
- Gilles Deleuze — The Rhizome and Multiplicity
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — The Universal Characteristic
- Gregory Bateson — Information as Difference
- Heinz von Foerster — Second-Order Cybernetics
- Jack Dennis — The Forgotten Origin of Capabilities
- James Gibson — Affordances and the Theory of Perception
- Juan Benet — IPFS and Content-Addressed Storage
- Leslie Lamport — Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events
- Marc Stiegler — Petnames and Introduction Patterns
- Mark Miller — Capability Security and the E Language
- Markus Lanthaler — Hydra and Machine-Readable Web Operations
- Niklas Luhmann — Social Systems and Communication
- Norman Hardy — KeyKOS and the Persistent Capability Operating System
- Pat Helland — Life Beyond Distributed Transactions
- Ramon Llull — The First Machine for Reasoning
- Robin Milner — Types, Processes, and the Pi Calculus
- Roy Fielding — The Man Who Named How the Web Works
- Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder — The Protection of Information in Computer Systems
- Satoshi Nakamoto — Bitcoin and the Append-Only Ledger
- Ted Nelson — Xanadu and the Dream of Connected Documents
- Tim Berners-Lee — The Universal Link and the Semantic Web
- Vannevar Bush — The Memex and the Trail of Thought
Protocol Concepts (20 articles)
What-is pages: receipts, HATEOAS, capability tokens, autopoiesis, voxel graph, and related units.
- What Is Autopoiesis
- What Is Capability-Based Security
- What Is a Capability Token
- What Is a Confused Deputy
- What Is Context as Cursor
- What Is a Convergence Catalogue
- What Is a Falsification Surface
- What Is HATEOAS
- What Is the History of Link Protocols
- What Is a Merkle Tree
- What Is the Missing Reader Problem
- What Is Model-Operated Work
- What Is W3C PROV
- What Is "The Receipt Is the Proof"
- What Is a Receipt
- What Is Replay and Repair
- What Is a Self-Describing Protocol
- What Is the Semantic Web
- What Is "The URL Is the API"
- What Is a Voxel Graph
OIP Lineages (3 articles)
What OIP should take from REST, capability security, and the Semantic Web.
- What OIP Should Take from Capability Security
- What OIP Should Take from REST
- What OIP Should Take from the Semantic Web
Token Drop Guides (4 articles)
How models should read drops; best practices; what a token drop is; Tap & Go.
- How a Model Should Read an OIP Token Drop
- How to Write a Token Drop That Models Accept
- What Is Tap and Go Delegation
- What Is a Token Drop
Machine surfaces
- This hub:
https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-thinker-reference - JSON:
https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/oip-thinker-reference - Protocol map:
https://miscsubjects.com/api/dispatch?map=1&format=markdown - Registry:
https://miscsubjects.com/api/dispatch?registry=1
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