Question Graphs

Essay·26 October 2026

Question Graphs

Ask the context first and the person last.

A notation for the questioning stage of work with an agent. A question graph holds every question an inquiry contains, how they depend on one another, and what is already known, so the agent can harvest answers from context and ask the person only what matters now. It moves from trees to revisable graphs, through the uncertain stretch before a goal exists, and ends with a filterable list of sources.

How it was made

A single page of hand-built SVG figures, extending the bead notation of Loopism Notation, which it will later absorb. Edited for holonomy: a few lines were rephrased for a general reader and one link was removed.

Themes

  • questioning
  • human–AI
  • notation
  • research

In Questioning

Neighbouring stars

  • Tracequestioning

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