**Bead document** from Bead: Glass Bead Game · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/bead-bind-startup.md) · discussion: Talk: Glass Bead Game
**Do this first:** read [2026-07-09/notes/00-founding-vision.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/2026-07-09/notes/00-founding-vision.md). **Current focus:** design notes accreting from the founding riff. No runnable board yet; the runnable candidates this bead points at are the wedtech deck, the incident-viewer deep-links, and the agentscript-webgpu work.
## Notes index - [00-founding-vision.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/2026-07-09/notes/00-founding-vision.md): the riff structured into the three hard surfaces (rendering, cognition, authority) plus the physical board. - [01-first-playable-move-wedtech-chain.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/2026-07-09/notes/01-first-playable-move-wedtech-chain.md): the WedTech chain as a URI playlist the board can traverse. - [02-phone-simtable-topologies.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/2026-07-09/notes/02-phone-simtable-topologies.md): phone-as-simtable topologies plus rendered sketches in [2026-07-09/artifacts/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/2026-07-09/artifacts/) (owned by a sibling agent this session). - [03-facets-as-contracts.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/2026-07-09/notes/03-facets-as-contracts.md): facets as transactions of asymmetries; the cognition ladder as facets of one bead.
## Ground truth - [2026-07-09/chats/2026-07-09-founding-riff-back-capture.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/2026-07-09/chats/2026-07-09-founding-riff-back-capture.md): Stephen's verbatim riff, back-captured from bead 7738b2e5's chat log.
## Mounts (read; resolve by short name in [names.json](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/names.json)) - [wedtech-talk `9d343253`](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/about.md): the first playable content. - [hubler-wires `874fce5b`](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/874fce5b-9c8b-4b23-b2ed-429148c6c4b7/about.md): lineage (glass-bead-game-gsd-live, polarized links, paths-as-event-bus). - [agentscript-webgpu `f4ef67b7`](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/f4ef67b7-001f-412c-ba90-f93ceba92bda/about.md): the sim-as-hologram path. - [progression-viewer `7738b2e5`](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7738b2e5-ec2f-4eb9-b774-a8bbc1756907/about.md): the Old Fire URI chain and the raster-drape design question (Direction C). - [acequia-user-model `9e1d87f5`](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9e1d87f5-a226-4d1a-be05-64c8d5cacf38/about.md): the groups-vs-URIs rich point.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: Wedtech Beads 2026 07 08 · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/) - Bead: 874fce5b · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/874fce5b-9c8b-4b23-b2ed-429148c6c4b7/) - Bead: Agentscript Webgpu · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/f4ef67b7-001f-412c-ba90-f93ceba92bda/) - Bead: Progression Viewer · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7738b2e5-ec2f-4eb9-b774-a8bbc1756907/) - Bead: Acequia User Model & Architecture Bead · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9e1d87f5-a226-4d1a-be05-64c8d5cacf38/)