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slug: oip-thinker-reference
title: OIP Thinker Reference
canonical: https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-thinker-reference
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> **Path:** [OIP](https://miscsubjects.com/a/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

1. Start at [OIP root](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip) if you need the protocol itself.
2. Pick a **shelf** below.
3. Open any leaf. Each leaf has §SELF, Up the tree, Related siblings, and machine URLs.
4. For graph shape, read [What Is a Voxel Graph](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-voxel-graph).

## Shelves

### [Thinkers](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-thinkers) (33 articles)

Intellectual lineage: people whose work OIP inherits or answers.

- [Alan Kay — The Big Idea Is Messaging](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-alan-kay)
- [Alfred North Whitehead — Process and Reality](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-alfred-north-whitehead)
- [J.L. Austin and John Searle — Speech Acts](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-austin-searle)
- [Barbara Liskov — Abstract Data Types and Distributed Consensus](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-barbara-liskov)
- [Bram Cohen — BitTorrent and Content-Addressed Protocol Design](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-bram-cohen)
- [Butler Lampson — Protection and Access Control](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-butler-lampson)
- [Carl Hewitt — The Actor Model](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-carl-hewitt)
- [Charles Sanders Peirce — Signs, Abduction, and Pragmatism](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-charles-peirce)
- [Doug Engelbart — Augmenting Human Intellect](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-doug-engelbart)
- [Eric Brewer — The CAP Theorem](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-eric-brewer)
- [Gilbert Simondon — Technical Objects and Individuation](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-gilbert-simondon)
- [Gilles Deleuze — The Rhizome and Multiplicity](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-gilles-deleuze)
- [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — The Universal Characteristic](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-gottfried-leibniz)
- [Gregory Bateson — Information as Difference](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-gregory-bateson)
- [Heinz von Foerster — Second-Order Cybernetics](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-heinz-von-foerster)
- [Jack Dennis — The Forgotten Origin of Capabilities](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-jack-dennis)
- [James Gibson — Affordances and the Theory of Perception](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-james-gibson)
- [Juan Benet — IPFS and Content-Addressed Storage](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-juan-benet)
- [Leslie Lamport — Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-leslie-lamport)
- [Marc Stiegler — Petnames and Introduction Patterns](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-marc-stiegler)
- [Mark Miller — Capability Security and the E Language](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-mark-miller)
- [Markus Lanthaler — Hydra and Machine-Readable Web Operations](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-markus-lanthaler)
- [Niklas Luhmann — Social Systems and Communication](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-niklas-luhmann)
- [Norman Hardy — KeyKOS and the Persistent Capability Operating System](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-norman-hardy)
- [Pat Helland — Life Beyond Distributed Transactions](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-pat-helland)
- [Ramon Llull — The First Machine for Reasoning](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-ramon-llull)
- [Robin Milner — Types, Processes, and the Pi Calculus](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-robin-milner)
- [Roy Fielding — The Man Who Named How the Web Works](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-roy-fielding)
- [Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder — The Protection of Information in Computer Systems](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-saltzer-schroeder)
- [Satoshi Nakamoto — Bitcoin and the Append-Only Ledger](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-satoshi-nakamoto)
- [Ted Nelson — Xanadu and the Dream of Connected Documents](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-ted-nelson)
- [Tim Berners-Lee — The Universal Link and the Semantic Web](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-tim-berners-lee)
- [Vannevar Bush — The Memex and the Trail of Thought](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-vannevar-bush)

### [Protocol Concepts](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-protocol-concepts) (20 articles)

What-is pages: receipts, HATEOAS, capability tokens, autopoiesis, voxel graph, and related units.

- [What Is Autopoiesis](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-autopoiesis)
- [What Is Capability-Based Security](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-capability-security)
- [What Is a Capability Token](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-capability-token)
- [What Is a Confused Deputy](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-confused-deputy)
- [What Is Context as Cursor](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-context-as-cursor)
- [What Is a Convergence Catalogue](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-convergence-catalogue)
- [What Is a Falsification Surface](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-falsification-surface)
- [What Is HATEOAS](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-hateoas)
- [What Is the History of Link Protocols](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-link-protocol-history)
- [What Is a Merkle Tree](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-merkle-tree)
- [What Is the Missing Reader Problem](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-missing-reader)
- [What Is Model-Operated Work](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-model-operated-work)
- [What Is W3C PROV](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-prov)
- [What Is "The Receipt Is the Proof"](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-receipt-is-proof)
- [What Is a Receipt](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-receipt)
- [What Is Replay and Repair](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-replay-repair)
- [What Is a Self-Describing Protocol](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-self-describing-protocol)
- [What Is the Semantic Web](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-semantic-web)
- [What Is "The URL Is the API"](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-url-is-api)
- [What Is a Voxel Graph](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-voxel-graph)

### [OIP Lineages](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-from-lineages) (3 articles)

What OIP should take from REST, capability security, and the Semantic Web.

- [What OIP Should Take from Capability Security](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-from-capability-security)
- [What OIP Should Take from REST](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-from-rest)
- [What OIP Should Take from the Semantic Web](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-from-semantic-web)

### [Token Drop Guides](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-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](https://miscsubjects.com/a/model-reads-token-drop)
- [How to Write a Token Drop That Models Accept](https://miscsubjects.com/a/token-drop-best-practices)
- [What Is Tap and Go Delegation](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-tap-go)
- [What Is a Token Drop](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-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`

