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Wardley Map

What to build, reuse or stop building.

The vertical axis is visibility in the value chain. The horizontal axis is evolution from genesis to commodity. The map separates component evolution from our implementation decision and our capability progress.

Gas City is evidence that agent orchestration has moved toward a product stage. That does not prove orchestration is a commodity. It does suggest original effort should move toward less mature capabilities such as product discovery and independent evaluation.

Wardley Map of autonomous organisation componentsVertical position shows visibility in the value chain. Horizontal position shows evolution from genesis to commodity.Visible user needEvolutionUser outcomesAutonomous product organisationsAutonomous product discoveryProduct experimentsIndependent evaluationOrganisational coordinationAgent orchestrationPersistent task managementAgent harnessesModel APIsCoding modelsGitWorktreesGitHub coordinationTesting frameworksDeployment infrastructureIdentity and authorityResource accounting

Accessible component table

ComponentCurrent stageEvidenceStrategic implicationInspect
User outcomescustomCultivate operator brief; Existing narrative and capability roadmap Google DocStart decisions from outcomes rather than agent activity.
Autonomous product organisationsgenesisCultivate operator brief; Existing narrative and capability roadmap Google DocTreat this as a research programme, not an operating capability.
Autonomous product discoverygenesisExisting narrative and capability roadmap Google DocInvest original effort here before building another orchestration layer.
Product experimentscustomCultivate operator brief; Existing narrative and capability roadmap Google DocUse ordinary experiment design ideas, but keep the private data boundary explicit.
Independent evaluationcustomCultivate operator brief; LinkedIn Slop Filter main at 8984c80Make evaluator checks part of the roadmap before delegating product decisions.
Organisational coordinationcustomDelegate AGENTS.md and agent work guide; Cultivate operator briefKeep authority records close to product decisions.
Agent orchestrationproductLocal Gas City runtime and commands; Gas City repositoryAdopt Gas City for general coordination instead of building another scheduler.
Persistent task managementproductLocal Gas City runtime and commandsUse beads for operational state and GitHub for external engineering record.
Agent harnessesproductT3 Code; Local Gas City runtime and commandsExpect rapid product change from agent harness vendors.
Model APIsproductLinkedIn Slop Filter main at 8984c80Treat model access as a replaceable dependency where possible.
Coding modelsproductExisting narrative and capability roadmap Google DocSelect models by task value, not to demonstrate multi-agent theatre.
GitcommodityGit worktree documentationDo not spend effort reinventing source history.
WorktreescommodityGit worktree documentation; PR #118: mandatory isolated worktreesUse worktrees for concurrent agents instead of separate full clones.
GitHub coordinationcommodityLinkedIn Slop Filter main at 8984c80; Delegate AGENTS.md and agent work guideKeep GitHub as the external record even when Gas City owns runtime state.
Testing frameworkscommodityLinkedIn Slop Filter main at 8984c80; React Flow documentationUse existing test tools before building specialised evaluators.
Deployment infrastructureproductTailscale; Cultivate operator briefKeep this MVP local until public deployment is approved.
Identity and authoritycustomCultivate operator brief; Delegate AGENTS.md and agent work guideTreat authority as a cross-cutting requirement.
Resource accountingcustomLocal Gas City runtime and commands; Cultivate operator briefAdd lightweight records before letting budgets drive autonomous choices.