Starting Authority AI in public
- What happened today
- First public commit. Repo set up, scaffolding for FastAPI service and PostgreSQL schema in place. Wrote the Constitution as the intellectual anchor before writing the first line of feature code.
- What worked
- Forcing myself to write the Constitution first. It made the data model choices obvious. Knowledge Objects became the central primitive; everything else hangs off them.
- What broke
- Initial schema treated knowledge as documents. Had to throw it out and rebuild around decisions and the context they need.
- What I learned
- The instinct to 'index everything' is the same instinct that has produced every failed knowledge product of the last 20 years. Schema-first beats search-first.
- What happens next
- Stand up the retrieval engine end-to-end on a single domain. Then start wiring the first integration.