Context: Proactive Goal-Directed Intelligence via Composable Sandboxed Programs, Declarative Wiring, and Structured Interaction
A new paper presents Context, the intelligence layer of the Magarshak Architecture, which replaces reactive chatbots with proactive goal-directed agents. The architecture relies on write-time context assembly, composable sandboxed wisdom programs, and proactive goal stream state machines. It proves six theorems including context stability and proactive dominance.
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- Replaces reactive chatbots with proactive agents that advance tasks without waiting for prompts.
- Three mechanisms: write-time context assembly, composable sandboxed programs, proactive state machines.
- Proves six theorems including cost bounds and dominance over reactive agents.
- Implemented in open-source Qbix/Safebox/Safebots stack.
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This matters because replaces reactive chatbots with proactive agents that advance tasks without waiting for prompts.
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[2605.23928] Context: Proactive Goal-Directed Intelligence via Composable Sandboxed Programs, Declarative Wiring, and Structured Interaction
[Submitted on 21 Apr 2026]
Title:Context: Proactive Goal-Directed Intelligence via Composable Sandboxed Programs, Declarative Wiring, and Structured Interaction
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Abstract:We present Context, the intelligence layer of the Magarshak Architecture, which replaces reactive query-response chatbots with proactive goal-directed agents that advance shared tasks without waiting for user prompts. The architecture rests on three mutually reinforcing mechanisms. Write-time context assembly precomputes enriched typed attributes via Groker agents, assembling interaction context as a deterministic pure function of graph state; context blocks are byte-identical across turns between semantic changes, enabling near-100% KV-cache reuse. Composable sandboxed wisdom programs form a governed library of LM-generated imperative programs declaratively wired to goal types via typed stream relations, composed via phase ordering, and executed at interaction time without further LM calls. Proactive goal stream state machines drive conversations toward terminal states by inspecting graph state and emitting structured interaction content (option arrays, governance affordances, clarification prompts) without awaiting user input. We prove six formal results: the Context Stability Theorem, bounding per-turn LM cost as a function of semantic change rate; a Program Composition Correctness Theorem; a Declarative Wiring Soundness Theorem; the Proactive Dominance Theorem, proving proactive agents weakly dominate reactive agents on expected turns-to-terminal-state; Coordination Overhead Elimination and Quality Preservation, establishing Pareto improvements in multi-participant goal chats; and a Cross-Platform Vote Consistency Theorem. Implemented in the open-source Qbix / Safebox / Safebots stack.
Comments: 7 pages; third in a series with arXiv:this http URL (Magarshak Machine / SPACER) and arXiv:this http URL (Grokers)
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Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Programming Languages (cs.PL); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
ACM classes: H.5.3; I.2.7; I.2.4; D.2.11
Cite as: arXiv:2605.23928 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2605.23928v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.23928
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From: Gregory Magarshak [view email] [v1] Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:39:40 UTC (16 KB)
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