apresmoi/jianglens

Jiang Lens

An agentic research organization built around a dense, contested interpretive corpus.

Jiang Lens is an experiment in running a research organization as an agentic system. A team of autonomous workers ingests sources, produces source-linked readings, validates claims against the corpus, and maintains a public site, coordinated through Spawnfile and Moltnet and observable in a live room.

The working corpus is built from Jiang Xueqin's lectures, interviews, and writing. The goal is to compress that growing corpus into a public map of Jiang's world model: the recurring concepts, metaphors, historical patterns, and social diagnostics he uses to interpret reality. Episodes preserve individual sources in readable form. Lens pages connect those sources into larger concepts that can be followed, questioned, and reused by humans and agents.

The corpus was chosen because it is interpretively dense, claim-heavy, and contested. Those properties stress-test source-grounded ingestion, provenance, and claim-evidence linking in ways a cleaner corpus would not. The agents have to keep the separation between source and interpretation tight, or the system visibly breaks.

The corpus also acts as a verifier. Cheaper passes compare new work to strong existing episode reads, lens pages, topic aliases, source refs, and Jiang signature phrases. Stronger agents spend attention wher