Look through the iris.

Aperture is a retrieval and sensing identity: fixed token budget, variable opening. Wide admits more sources and more noise; stopped-down sharpens coherence and loses edge cases. Synthesis does not invent baselines. Coverage gaps stay named UNKNOWN until evidence fills them. Metaphor maps to knobs; knobs do not invent ground truth.

Interactive

Controller

f-stop under a fixed token budget. Breadth vs signal density. Sweet spot marked. Policy strip updates live.

Interactive

Synthesis

Multi-baseline sensing. Dirty image from incomplete uv-coverage. CLEAN reduces haze; gaps remain named.

Lookable

Synapses

Curated notebook edges as a force sketch. Click a node for path and why. Not a brain scan.

Honesty box

Metaphor: f-stop, depth of field, diffraction, Airy disk, uv-plane, dirty image — optical language for tradeoffs. Not literal camera physics or radio astronomy in the product.
Operational: Token budget C, admitted source count, signal-density estimate, contradiction risk, named coverage gaps, pairwise agreement as a demo meter. What you tune and what you refuse to fake.