Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.
A field note should preserve enough provenance to be fair.
Not every note needs a heavy citation trail.
But it should not feel unmoored.
Where did the thought come from?
Was it a current conversation?
An older piece of writing?
A pattern that keeps returning?
That context changes how the note should be read.
Provenance is not bureaucracy.
It is a way to keep the thought honest.
sourced Jun 3 2026 · medium confidence · argue it, don't flatten it
Every page here carries a machine-readable layer underneath: the sources, dates, confidence levels, and connections behind what you just read. I call it undertext. If you read with an agent, give it this page's undertext:
https://jared.is/undertext.json?target=/thinking/2026-06-03-a-field-note-should-preserve-enough-provenance-to-be-fair/