{
  "updated": "2026-08-17",
  "theme": "Studios product blueprint",
  "principle": "Build the new user experience from existing project, work-thread, task, memory, focus, source and AI capabilities before creating new canonical entities.",
  "product_shape": {
    "primary_destinations": ["Studios", "Memory", "Settings"],
    "studio_internal_mapping": "Existing Project scope plus current Work Thread and contextual layers",
    "new_studio_entity": false,
    "compatibility_rule": "Keep current Project IDs, Markdown formats, WORKOS naming and specialist routes during migration."
  },
  "studio_shell": [
    "goal",
    "resume_anchor",
    "main_artifact_or_current_thread",
    "next_action",
    "compact_task_drawer",
    "context_shelf",
    "optional_AI_sidecar",
    "inline_focus_state",
    "closeout",
    "studio_local_runs"
  ],
  "capability_mapping": [
    {
      "from": "Projects",
      "to": "Studios",
      "treatment": "Reuse Project as durable scope; replace separate project workbench over time."
    },
    {
      "from": "Workspace",
      "to": "Studio home/shell",
      "treatment": "Keep derived Work Thread but remove mode bar, graph, permanent queue and competing workbench layers."
    },
    {
      "from": "Tasks",
      "to": "Studio steps and current thread",
      "treatment": "Keep detailed editor as secondary route."
    },
    {
      "from": "Focus",
      "to": "Thread state",
      "treatment": "Keep service and fallback route; primary controls stay inline."
    },
    {
      "from": "Reviews",
      "to": "Closeout and deliberate reflection",
      "treatment": "Keep durable review records as secondary depth."
    },
    {
      "from": "Memory + Cognitive Bites",
      "to": "One contextual Memory layer",
      "treatment": "Preserve formats; unify daily retrieval UX."
    },
    {
      "from": "Chats + Prompts",
      "to": "AI sidecar and Studio instructions",
      "treatment": "Keep full libraries secondary."
    },
    {
      "from": "Quick Links + Obsidian context",
      "to": "Sources shelf",
      "treatment": "Preserve provenance and original source access."
    },
    {
      "from": "Routines + Agents",
      "to": "Studio-local Runs",
      "treatment": "Global automation stays troubleshooting/advanced."
    },
    {
      "from": "Signals + Readiness + Analytics",
      "to": "Background signals",
      "treatment": "Use underneath ranking/intervention; surface only when a decision needs them."
    },
    {
      "from": "Provenance",
      "to": "Why this? trail",
      "treatment": "Contextual verification, not a daily destination."
    },
    {
      "from": "Batches",
      "to": "Advanced execution",
      "treatment": "Keep outside default Studio grammar until repeated real use proves value."
    }
  ],
  "service_responsibilities": [
    {
      "name": "Context Compiler",
      "purpose": "Build the smallest useful Studio context packet from existing services."
    },
    {
      "name": "Memory Governor",
      "purpose": "Admit, rank, verify, supersede and forget memory."
    },
    {
      "name": "Attention Governor",
      "purpose": "Decide whether a signal or suggestion deserves visible attention now."
    },
    {
      "name": "Action Governor",
      "purpose": "Decide whether work can continue, needs preview, or needs a checkpoint."
    },
    {
      "name": "Recovery Ledger",
      "purpose": "Keep enough provenance, snapshots and outcomes to explain, undo, retry and resume."
    }
  ],
  "implementation_sequence": [
    {
      "slice": 1,
      "name": "Define Studio without new storage",
      "goal": "Document Studio as Project scope + Work Thread + contextual layers."
    },
    {
      "slice": 2,
      "name": "Build one thin Studio shell",
      "goal": "Goal, resume anchor, current artifact/thread, next action and one contextual drawer."
    },
    {
      "slice": 3,
      "name": "Absorb Project workbench",
      "goal": "Move context pack, Obsidian context, decision context, intervention and trail into optional Studio layers."
    },
    {
      "slice": 4,
      "name": "Compress task execution",
      "goal": "Capture, clarify, Focus, interruption parking, closeout and next-action handoff become one continuous flow."
    },
    {
      "slice": 5,
      "name": "Add Context Compiler",
      "goal": "Return one Studio context response rather than assembling many independent queries in the frontend."
    },
    {
      "slice": 6,
      "name": "Add AI sidecar",
      "goal": "Hermes/DIAL use the same context packet; AI-disabled remains first-class."
    },
    {
      "slice": 7,
      "name": "Hide secondary product grammar",
      "goal": "Remove old areas from normal navigation after contextual entry points exist."
    },
    {
      "slice": 8,
      "name": "Dogfood restart loop",
      "goal": "Measure 24-hour resume time, navigation decisions and closeout quality."
    }
  ],
  "remove_from_main_experience": [
    "Workspace mode bar",
    "relationship graph by default",
    "permanent work queue",
    "permanent recommendation-training panel",
    "duplicate Project workbench",
    "AI as a separate product area"
  ],
  "north_star_interaction": "Open Studio -> understand goal and state -> continue one useful action -> use context or AI only when needed -> leave a resume anchor -> return later without rebuilding the work in your head.",
  "research_sources": [
    "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/goals-as-first-class-abstractions-in-human-ai-collaboration/",
    "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/from-raw-interaction-to-reusable-knowledge-rethinking-memory-for-ai-agents/",
    "https://proceedings.mlr.press/v317/wu26a.html"
  ]
}