Editorial
Editorial is a system for writing with AI, built on the same machinery as Convergence with prose as the material. It is in design. This page records the problem and the intent.
The problem
Writing with AI does not converge. Feedback on a draft triggers a rewrite, the rewrite arrives in a new uniform register, and the next round of feedback produces a different essay rather than a closer one. The failure has mechanics. A model writing in one pass locks into a register and reinforces it, so the whole draft gets exactly one texture. Matching a corpus reproduces the average of the corpus and loses the variance where a voice actually lives. And rules compiled from an author's reactions can only forbid; a style is a positive object, and no list of bans generates one.
Meanwhile the judgments the author gives — the only signal that matters — evaporate with the conversation that carried them, and the same corrections are paid for again on every draft.
The macrostate
An essay converges the way software does: layer by layer, with locks. Intent sits above prose — the audience, what they believe now, what they leave with — and is decided before sentences exist, so an edit routes to the layer it belongs to instead of being wordsmithed downstream. Candidates arrive in small units, a paragraph or an opening, because prose is expensive to compare and judgment cost sizes the units. Accepted sections freeze; a flagged sentence produces an in-place patch; the draft only moves closer.
Every verdict compiles into editorial law: a style guide with worked examples, machine-checkable rules, a library of accepted work. An editor pipeline applies the law before anything reaches the author, so what the author reads is already filtered, and what the author decides is never spent twice.
Resolution with the philosophy
Editorial is Encoding judgment as rules and Shipping is merging applied to prose. It exists because the lab needs it: the essays on this site are produced by this process run by hand, and the tool is that process made into an instrument. Its first user is the lab's own corpus.
It is built on Convergence because convergence machinery does not care what the candidates are; prose is the second material. Status: defined and queued behind Convergence, prototyped the same way — skills and scripts inside the agent CLI, the interface mocked through MCP.