No serious engineering culture treats the compiled binary as the place you make changes.

Making the knowledge base actionable

Karpathy-style knowledge bases are great at storing and organizing what a project knows.

The Foundry Pattern structures deterministic slices of that base into the context needed to perform an action.

Karpathy — llm-wiki.md ↗

The picture to hold

the skill
the binary
the Knowledge Base
the code
casting
the compiler
provenance
the build log
Diagram: a Knowledge Base of notes, schemas and references containing a Mold with typed dependencies, compiled by a deterministic cast into a frozen skill and a provenance record
People maintain the source. Agents receive small, frozen artifacts.