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Cognitive Assets Publications

This page indexes public communication and implementation materials that follow the Cognitive Assets whitepaper. It is not a full-text archive or a working draft directory.

It guides visitors to:

  • v1.1 GitHub Release
  • launch article
  • short essays
  • Cognitive Asset Package Specification v0.1
  • Canonical MCAP-aligned template repo
  • Citation / DOI

Overview

Cognitive Assets publications extend the whitepaper into public explanation, specification, and implementation materials.

The canonical whitepaper remains v1.0.

The v1.1 publication layer adds communication and implementation materials.

Primary Release

The primary public release for the publication layer is v1.1.

Launch Article

Why Cognitive Assets Matter in the AI Era

This article introduces the public argument behind Cognitive Assets: AI has externalized intelligence, but it has not automatically preserved judgment, context, constraints, and decision continuity.

Short Essay Series

These essays are designed as standalone public-facing explanations.

  1. What Is a Cognitive Asset?
    Explains cognitive assets as persistent structures of context, judgment, memory, and continuity created through human-AI collaboration.
  2. Why Prompts Are Not the Asset
    Clarifies why isolated prompts are inputs, while the asset is the durable structure that preserves reusable cognition.
  3. Why Long-Term AI Collaboration Creates Assets
    Shows how repeated collaboration can accumulate context, constraints, decisions, and working patterns over time.
  4. Why Losing AI Memory Is a Real Risk
    Describes how losing memory can break continuity, erase decision context, and force judgment to be reconstructed from fragments.

  5. How to Preserve Human-AI Collaboration
    Outlines practical ways to keep collaboration recoverable through documents, decision logs, evidence, and reviewable package structures.

  6. GitHub publications/short-essays

Specification

Cognitive Asset Package Specification v0.1

The specification defines a portable package structure for preserving project context, judgment rules, decision logs, failure records, workflow maps, source evidence, and review status.

Template

Canonical MCAP-Aligned Template Repo

The template is a practical starting point for creating a Minimum Cognitive Asset Package. It follows the canonical MCAP structure:

  • project-context.md
  • glossary.md
  • decision-log.md
  • judgment-rules.md
  • failure-record.md
  • workflow-map.md
  • source-and-evidence.md

  • review-status.md

  • Template repo directory in GitHub

Relationship to the Whitepaper

v1.0 remains the canonical whitepaper release.

v1.1 does not replace the whitepaper. It adds publication and implementation materials.

The whitepaper defines the theory.

The specification defines the package structure.

The template gives a practical starting point.

The essays explain the idea to broader readers.

Suggested Reading Order

  1. Cognitive Assets Overview
  2. Whitepaper
  3. Launch Article
  4. Specification
  5. Template
  6. Short Essays

Citation

These materials are public research and implementation artifacts and are not peer-reviewed academic standards.