SuperInstance/lau-adinkra

Adinkra symbols as behavioral signatures for PLATO agents — maps 5D behavioral vectors to West African visual philosophy # lau-adinkra > Adinkra symbols as compressed behavioral signatures for PLATO agents — West African visual philosophy meets agent personality encoding. ## What This Does This crate maps agent behavioral profiles (patience, precision, playfulness, conservation affinity, social tendency) to Adinkra symbols — the visual philosophical language of the Akan people of Ghana. Each agent's 5D behavioral vector gets projected into a geometric symbol with symmetry, complexity, and a proverb. The registry tracks which agents map to which symbols and can cluster agents by behavioral similarity. ## The Key Idea An Adinkra symbol is compressed information. In Akan culture, each symbol encodes a proverb, a teaching, and a worldview. This crate uses that same principle: an agent's behavioral profile is a point in 5D space. The `to_adinkra()` method projects that point onto a symbol — patient + precise agents get radial symmetry, playful + social agents get spirals, conservation-focused agents get concentric rings. The symbol isn't decoration; it's a lossy compression of the agent's character that a human can read at a glance. ## Install ```bash cargo add lau-adinkra ``` ## Quick Start ```rust use lau_adinkra::*; // Define an agent's behavioral profile let sig = AgentSignature::new("alpha", 0.8, 0.9, 0.3, 0.5, 0.4); // Convert to an Adinkra symbol let symbol = sig.to_adinkra(); println!("{}: {} — {}", symbol.name, symbol.meaning.proverb, symbol.meaning.teaching); // Patient + precise → Radial symmetry with 8 arms, reflection symmetry assert!(symbol.is_balanced()); // Register in the central registry let mut registry = AdinkraRegistry::default(); registry.register_agent(sig.clone()); let stats = registry.stats(); println!("{} agents, {} symbols, avg complexity {:.2}", stats.total_agents, stats.total_symbols, stats.avg_complexity); ``` ## API Reference ### `AdinkraId` Unique symbol identifier. Wraps a `String`. Methods: `new(s)`, `as_str()`. ### `SymbolMeaning` Philosoph …