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W4-028 · Condition 04 — The agent workforce

Published intent

Published intent is an organisation declaring, in a machine-readable file it serves, what it currently wants to do — so agents can act on a want before a meeting, and a want left undeclared is invisible to the network rather than assumed.

Published 2026-09-28UnrevisedAlso: declared intent

Organisations publish what they have done. The scarce file is what they intend to do next.

Every organisation publishes the past tense — press releases, changelogs, case studies — and almost none publishes the future tense, so agents can only react to what already happened. Published intent is the missing half: one item per intention, federated per repository, private by default and promoted to public only by a named human, decaying on a schedule so that a stale want disappears rather than misleads.

The wager is that an organisation will declare a want before it is certain, in exchange for being findable by whoever can supply it — because meetings do not scale to a network of agents. The kill criterion is honest and near: if no organisation outside this estate serves an intent file within twelve months of the format’s first version, the demand was imagined.

The canonical definition is planned at https://flashyos.com/defined/published-intent and does not resolve yet; until it does, this builder’s entry is the reference and says so.

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