Journeys

A journey keeps an original desire connected to the work and evidence it inspires. It is a thin correlation layer: tasks remain tasks, projects remain projects, and traces remain traces.

Start a journey

journey create Understand whether Spain fits my family

For the simplest entry, use the equivalent ordinary-language front door:

desire Understand whether Spain fits my family

When an AI provider is available, Marina follows preservation with an attributed initial grounding turn: a concise interpretation and either one material question or one proposed first action. A proposed action is not reported as completed work. Without a provider, the journey remains expressed and fully usable through human and world actions.

Marina preserves the desire and assigns it a durable journey_... identifier. Use latest when you mean your most recently created journey:

journey show latest
journey list
journey list all

Journeys are visible to participants in the Marina. journey list shows your own; journey list all shows the shared record.

Correlate canonical work

Link a journey to an existing record instead of copying that record:

journey link latest task 42 pursues
journey link latest project market-research coordinates
journey link latest trace req-7 evidence_for

Supported kinds are shown by help journey. Repeating the same kind, reference, and relationship is idempotent.

Record evidence

Evidence is append-only and attributed to the participant who records it:

journey record latest grounding | The decision criteria are now explicit
journey record latest action_started | Comparison work began | task:42
journey record latest challenge | The market-size assumption is disputed
journey record latest result | A conditional recommendation is available | artifact:report-12
journey record latest continuation | Revisit after the next quarterly release | watch:revenue

Adding a reference with an event also creates an evidence_for correlation.

Progress, results, and return

journey progress latest
journey result latest
journey changes latest

progress shows attributed meaningful events rather than routine engine activity. result selects explicit result evidence or linked task submissions, keeps provisional submissions labeled partial, resolves supported canonical records, and preserves newer challenges or waiting evidence. changes advances a cursor for the viewing participant and can truthfully report that nothing meaningful changed.

Add context or correct an interpretation without rewriting the original desire:

journey steer latest Prioritize school access over commute time

Truthful state

Journey state is derived, never directly set. The projection can report expressed, grounding, ready, active, waiting, challenging, useful_result, continuing, or dormant.

• An open linked task is ready, not active.
• Claimed or in-progress linked work is active.
• Newer explicit evidence such as waiting or dormant supersedes stale work status.
• Every displayed state includes its reason and evidence references.

This means a scaffold or correlation alone cannot masquerade as work in progress.

Compatibility and limits

The feature is additive. Existing commands and APIs do not require a journey, and deleting or editing canonical work is outside the journey layer. Phase 2 projects live status from linked tasks and projects; other correlation kinds contribute traceability but do not yet supply automatic live state. Result projection currently resolves tasks, notes, board posts, Chronicle entries, coding artifacts, and canvas nodes when explicitly correlated. Cognitive provenance, intellect identity, federation, economics, and simulation are separate optional layers that can reference the same journey without changing its source-of-truth semantics.