**Bead document** from Bead: Acequia Link · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/72efa91c-3506-49f2-9b5e-6af4c02ec12e/README.md) · discussion: Talk: Acequia Link
**Links as first-class agents** — peer to turtles (nodes/beads) and patches (origins/docks). A Link has an id, a breed, two mutable ends, a weight, and a lifecycle (hatch / die / rewire / step); it is *in-formed by participating in least-action pathways*. Read order: 1. [about.md](about.md) — what this bead is. 2. [2026-06-18/notes/00-acequia-link.md](2026-06-18/notes/00-acequia-link.md) — the design + the **top 5 link breeds**. 3. [`agent.mjs`](agent.mjs) — runnable demonstrator (`node agent.mjs`). Canonical entry: [about.md](about.md). Design bead, offer-only — proposes a convention, ratifies nothing.