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Observations from building Bourdon, recognition-first runtime + agent federation memory. Dated, cited, gap-aware.

2026-05-15

How Codex recognized Bourdon on a brand-new account

A user's Codex account became uneditable mid-week. They created a new email and signed in fresh on the same machine. The brand-new account's first conversation correctly recognized the project, purely from local recognition substrate.

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