id: P-001
slug: self-map
version: 0.1.0
title: The Self Map
layer: know
agent: The Cartographer
cadence: once
refresh: quarterly
duration_minutes: 90
difficulty: hard
status: draft
updated: 2026-08-02
license: CC-BY-SA-4.0
summary: A structured interview that replaces your assumed self-model with a
  recorded one. It works from evidence you have already produced rather than
  from self-description, because self-description is the least reliable
  instrument you own.
cost:
  time: 90 minutes, in one sitting
  discomfort: high
  prerequisites:
    - Access to your calendar for the past 3 months
    - Access to your own record — commits, documents, messages, anything you
      produced
    - A 90-minute block where you will not be interrupted
produces: self-map
requires: []
feeds:
  - P-002
  - P-003
sections:
  - id: record
    title: The Record
    minutes: 20
    purpose: Establish what you have actually done, before you are allowed to say
      who you are.
  - id: attention
    title: The Attention Ledger
    minutes: 15
    purpose: Locate the hours in which you are genuinely capable, from calendar
      evidence.
  - id: capability
    title: The Capability Inventory
    minutes: 20
    purpose: List what you can do, each item tagged with the strength of its evidence.
  - id: drives
    title: Drives and Aversions
    minutes: 15
    purpose: Infer what moves you from behaviour, not from stated values.
  - id: constraints
    title: The Constraints
    minutes: 10
    purpose: Record the immovable. Plans that ignore constraints fail on schedule.
  - id: contradictions
    title: The Contradictions
    minutes: 10
    purpose: Name every place the record disagrees with the self-description.
adversary_mode:
  supported: true
  effect: The Cartographer stops accepting self-report. Every claim about
    capability or preference must be attached to a dated instance from the
    record, or it is filed as unevidenced.
honesty:
  - Self-report is a weak instrument; this protocol is built to route around it
    and still partly depends on it.
  - The Self Map is a snapshot of a moving object. It decays. Refresh quarterly.
  - No claim is made that this map predicts your performance. It is a record,
    not an oracle.