**Note** from Bead: Robert Edson · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7cf652ec-44ae-4156-8b4a-f1e43c7f569f/2026-07-09/notes/00-action-affordances.md) · session 2026-07-09 · discussion: Talk: Robert Edson
Affordances are the real, relational action possibilities the Stephen-Robert surface presents, perceived directly. Grounded in the working record (calpoly-slo bead, past sessions); contact facts to be filled by Robert, never guessed.
## What the record shows - **Marketing consultant for Simtable**, working **story and positioning** (past session: "Robert Edson who is marketing consultant"; the CalPoly internal brief lists him alongside Kasra, Graydon, and Alison; the positioning axis is Stephen/Graydon + Edson). - **Share-token recipient.** Stephen minted `bead-share-with-partner` (tokenId `gz69kmtseaa9smujbmrkhdd0`) first for Robert, for querystring sharing of specific artifacts. Robert is already inside the partner-sharing pattern. - Home context: [calpoly-slo bead](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/cef6a5a8-ccbc-4102-bf59-4c37c82c29f5/about.md) (`cef6a5a8`, internal partnership).
## What the collaboration affords - **Story/positioning partner.** He is the person to hand narrative and positioning questions, so the outward-facing deck ([acequia-identity-substrate-slides v1.2.0](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/f0d2c5e4-cec9-4567-92bd-dbbc62937c9e/2026-07-08/artifacts/acequia-identity-substrate-slides.html), RDF already scrubbed) is exactly his surface. His affordance is the partner track. - **First glass-bead-game player.** Stephen's directive: play Robert's bead on the WedTech board with the partner track (slides + glass-bead view) and the uri-guid-discussion bead OFF the table. This is encoded concretely in the [WedTech view profile](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7cf652ec-44ae-4156-8b4a-f1e43c7f569f/2026-07-09/artifacts/wedtech-view-profile.json), which the digital-twin board reads as its renders-to-the-requester config for him. - **What we afford Robert:** a clean partner-track story of the week's work with the technical internals removed, and a share-tokened way to take specific pieces to his own channels.
## The WedTech play (Stephen's directive, 2026-07-09) > i want to play that bead on the wedech talk. and for robert take the uri-guid bead off the table. its too in the weeds. he will be more a partner track slides and glass bead view. Operationalized: Robert's board = hubler-wires + digital-twin (the glass-bead view) + rdf-and-acequia's outward deck (properties-walk-first); uri-guid-discussion removed. This is the first concrete use of the absorber / renders-to-the-requester idea from [digital-twin notes/02](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/c2ca1e60-1c8c-4bfa-a55d-2f82ef0aa796/2026-07-08/notes/02-interaction-decisions-and-absorber-foundation.md): the same board renders per requester, and Robert's requester profile lifts the in-the-weeds bead off his table. Debbie is sketching the first Glass Bead Game with Robert as the first player.
## Discipline Surface only; acting on any affordance is Stephen's move. Robert's [dock](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7cf652ec-44ae-4156-8b4a-f1e43c7f569f/uploads/) is open to him.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead cef6a5a8 · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/cef6a5a8-ccbc-4102-bf59-4c37c82c29f5/) (no page yet) - Bead: Rdf And Acequia · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/f0d2c5e4-cec9-4567-92bd-dbbc62937c9e/) - Bead: Acequia Digital Twin · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/c2ca1e60-1c8c-4bfa-a55d-2f82ef0aa796/)