Temporal Graph Evolution

This guide records how the homepage graph and the full explorer must evolve.

Current state

The homepage graph is now moving from a static decorative diagram toward a graph-backed preview. The explorer is already the richer surface and becomes a first-class navigation primitive for the site.

Immediate direction

The homepage graph:

• preview the live graph substrate
• reveal surfaces in temporal rollout/build order
• open the explorer in a new tab when nodes are clicked
• act as a governed preview surface rather than a toy diagram

The explorer:

• remain the primary graph workspace
• accept focus and mode parameters
• support topology, hybrid, and temporal views
• become the richer control surface for layout, filtering, and exploration

Expanded topology next

The next major evolution focuses on the expanded topology once it lands. That means the temporal graph does not stop at the current small surface set. It expands to show:

• more surfaces
• more semantic neighborhoods
• release/version changes
• doctrine and architecture linkages
• topology growth over time

Temporal force-directed direction

The target is closer to a temporal force-directed graph than a frozen solved layout. Temporal reveal is driven by platform evolution, release order, semantic layering, and expanded topology — not only by arbitrary display order.

Observable-style control surface

The graph experience must keep evolving toward a richer control rail:

• mode switching
• focus shortcuts
• topology / hybrid / temporal permutations
• annotation / comment / detail injection where appropriate
• configurable density and layout behaviors
• stronger explorer-first navigation

Documentation requirement

The temporal graph is not just a UI flourish. It is part of the platform’s visible semantic and governance model. The docs therefore describes:

• what the timeline means
• what orderings exist
• how topology expands
• how release/version changes affect the graph
• how explorer interactions map back to the underlying graph substrate

Vector-channel impact on temporal order

Temporal graph order must not remain a simple display hack.

As the semantic stack matures, temporal evolution is informed by:

• curated rollout order
• semantic cluster emergence
• latent topic expansion
• aligned 23rd-channel changes across LSA23 / LSI23 / LDA23
• graph edge changes from fused representation channels

In other words, expanded topology must eventually react not only to release order, but also to changes in the semantic basis itself.