**Bead document** from Bead: Acequia Component · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/1697e2ae-2580-4c66-b4c6-9e132b435d71/README.md) · discussion: Talk: Acequia Component
**The Acequia Component: a post-DOM component** — a governed, addressable *corridor* of the web (resource + flow + governance + representation as one stewarded unit). Web Components are merely browser/DOM components; this is the full-web unit. Seeded from three external-AI chats that independently converged on the idea, which lands almost exactly on the bead ecology. Read order: 1. [about.md](about.md) 2. [2026-06-20/notes/00-acequia-component.md](2026-06-20/notes/00-acequia-component.md) — the synthesis (four faces + the punchline: a bead nearly IS one). 3. [2026-06-20/artifacts/](2026-06-20/artifacts/) — the three verbatim transcripts. Canonical entry: [about.md](about.md). Concept/design bead, offer-only.