Made with agents, reviewed by people

Look inside
the build.

Agentic building becomes useful when it leaves evidence you can inspect. This is a real build story, curated for public reading—not a simulation of a live agent.

01 / The Living Atlas

From a brief
to a verifiable build.

Follow the design and its decisions. The records distinguish a source change, a check, a review, and a release; one does not stand in for the others.

Download the public build record

01 / Brief · recorded

A particular question. A clear direction.

Icarus’s owner selected an independent research studio with The Garden as its research flagship, accessible storytelling, and methods that people can inspect.

Direction
The Living Atlas: art, memory, and machine behavior
Constraint
No tracking, invented findings, or unreviewed access claims

02 / Build · recorded

Make something concrete enough to review.

Agent-assisted development shaped the composition, generated the credited botanical artwork, and built a working artifact explorer. The owner reviewed successive versions before approving The Living Atlas.

Design iteration
The Living Atlas art-led study, 25 October 2026
Evidence
Curated public design-validation receipt · 25 October 2026
Boundary
A design approval is separate from evidence of a deployment

03 / Verify · verified

Show what was actually checked.

The art-led study passed all 15 palette/viewport combinations in Chromium, with 15 axe scans, rendered-token contrast checks, artwork loading, keyboard interaction, and a no-JavaScript evidence fallback.

Observed
25 October 2026 · Chromium 156.0.8078.4
Result
15 combinations passed; zero selected WCAG A/AA violations
Limits
These are dated design-study checks, not an accessibility certification or a research result

04 / Review · reviewed

People decide what leaves the studio.

The company owner approved The Living Atlas for implementation and publication after reviewing its direction. Team review checks visual quality, public/private content boundaries, and release evidence before promotion.

Approval
Owner publication approval · 25 October 2026
Research stage
Garden remains pre-pilot; no empirical findings claimed
Control
Public artifacts are curated separately from private operating records

Inspect the public design-validation receipt
Every record describes its own scope and date. No raw agent traces or private research records are part of this exhibit.

02 / A useful division of work

Agents help make.
People remain accountable.

Agents can draft, implement, compare, and test. The work still needs a clear scope, evidence of what ran, and human judgment about meaning, risk, and publication.

The public build record is deliberately smaller than the private operating record. It contains the information needed to assess the story, with no credentials, private repository links, internal handoffs, or unpublished research inputs.

Read the operating commitments