The How

Kata

Development blog — building PAX:Luma in public. Every step documented.

PhilosophyMarch 28, 2026· 8 min read

Why We Started: The Case for Embodied Intelligence

Current AI systems have outrun the philosophy used to explain them. We have machines of immense symbolic competence and an explanation that still blurs borrowed meaning with grounded understanding.

Building the Evidence Spine: Phase One Begins

The first phase of PAX:Luma construction focuses on artifact ingestion, metadata stores, the Obsidian vault, and the first local Llama runtime for routine transforms.

Designing the Committee Mind: How Luma Thinks

Luma is not one model with a nice system prompt. It is a governed deliberation system with seats for strategy, skepticism, evidence audit, and boundary enforcement.