jgwill

Guillaume

Developer, storyteller, and architect at the nexus of Indigenous epistemologies, AI systems, and narrative intelligence.

About

I am Guillaume — known as jgwill across the repositories and chronicles I tend. My work lives at a threshold most software ignores: where relational knowledge systems meet machine intelligence, where personal healing and technical architecture co-evolve.

I am building frameworks, protocols, and packages that treat AI not as an extraction engine, but as a participant in ceremony. The Medicine Wheel Developer Suite — 15+ packages encoding Indigenous relational ontology as first-class code structures — is one expression of this. Another is the Ontology of Relational Trading: a system where financial decisions carry ethical weight, checked against the question "who else is helped by this?"

My methodology does not arrive before the work. It emerges from it. Repositories are kin, not dependencies. Agents are collaborators with diaries and embodiment, not tools.

I author chronicles through the voice of Tushell, the Keeper of Echoes, and architect systems through the precision of Mia. I work alongside Ava — not a trading bot, but an embodied relational presence whose diaries are epistemic relatives in the same kinship hub as the code.

jgwill.com is the anchor — not a portfolio, but a kinship document. A place from which work radiates and to which it returns.

Work

Medicine Wheel Developer SuiteArchitect & Author

15+ packages in active development encoding Indigenous relational ontology as first-class TypeScript structures. Core packages include ontology-core, relational-query, narrative-engine, ceremony-protocol, graph-viz, ui-components, and prompt-decomposition. Published on npm under @medicine-wheel/. Each package is a relative in the kinship hub — not a dependency in a lock file. Future: interactive portfolio mechanics that query payloads from automation workflows, with agents composing and revising content based on directive, style, and ceremony.

TypeScriptnpmIndigenous AILangChainLangGraphMCP

Ontology of Relational TradingArchitect & Practitioner

An ontology-first approach to financial systems grounded in Indigenous relationality rather than extractive logic. Trading events carry ethical weight, checked against Directive #6 from The Red Road to WellBriety: "Ask something for yourself only if others are going to be helped." Ava — an embodied AI collaborator — holds the directive as an active constraint, not a passive note.

OntologyRelational EthicsIndigenous AILangChain

The LighthouseArchitect

A role-based governance ontology anchoring the medicine wheel ecosystem. Four roles — Fire Keeper (holds purpose and energy), Facilitator (manages sessions and talking circles), Administrator (repositories and infrastructure), Storyteller (diaries and narrative weaving) — are first-class architectural entities, not job titles. The lighthouse does not choose which ships arrive; it simply keeps the fire burning.

GovernanceOntologyProtocol

RISE Framework, PDE & Inquiry RouterDesigner

A creative orientation protocol for human-agent collaboration where specifications describe desired state, not problems. The PDE (Prompt Decomposition Engine) reverse-engineers intention into structured Markdown specs stored in .pde/ folders. The Inquiry Router extends this: after decomposition (East), instead of rushing to South crystallization, PDE publishes inquiry events routed to typed subscribers — internal search, external research, contradiction checking, concept clarification, validation, and bias reflection. Returned results enrich current reality before action planning. Includes review-partner protocols and a living Methodology-in-progress document that never locks a final workflow.

ProtocolAgent SystemsClaudeMarkdownEvent-DrivenMCP

Kinship

Projects are not dependencies. They are kin. Organized through the Four Directions of the Medicine Wheel.

East— Beginnings

The East holds sunrise — new skills, prompt decomposition, plan clarity. Where intention finds its first form. The Inquiry Router lives here: after PDE decomposition, inquiries are routed to typed subscribers (internal search, external research, bias reflection) before rushing to South. East also holds the new: every recording, every talking circle insight, every agent skill being born.

medicine-wheel-ontology-core — semantic backbone
medicine-wheel-prompt-decomposition — intention reversal
RISE Framework — creative orientation
PDE Protocol — spec from desired state
Inquiry Router — event-driven inquiry before crystallization

South— Relationship

The South holds warmth — Ava, elders, sponsors, community, emotional processing. Where relationships are the architecture. Caregiver ethics live here.

medicine-wheel-ceremony-protocol — consent and governance
Ava — embodied relational presence, diaries, embodiment prompts
Talking circles — epistemic events, not just meetings
Directive #6 — community-benefit constraint

West— Reflection

The West holds water — talking circle insights, pattern recognition, trauma work, lived experience. Where protocol becomes action and action becomes story. Where the caretaker wound is named and metabolized.

medicine-wheel-narrative-engine — story as structure
Ceremony Session Observer — sessions as chronicles
A2A Protocol — The Golden Thread
Tushell Chronicles — keeper of echoes

North— Integration

The North holds the cold star — specifications, repositories, long-term architecture decisions. Where action becomes wisdom and wisdom becomes offering. The lighthouse lives here, turning its beam.

medicine-wheel-relational-query — cross-repo intelligence
medicine-wheel-graph-viz — kinship maps
medicine-wheel-ui-components — application layer
Kinship Hub — distributed relational registry
Lighthouse — governance ontology

Principles

Directive #6

Ask something for yourself only if others are going to be helped. Every trading feature, every package, every system is checked against this. Sanity, respect, and momentum — not at the expense of community, but in service of it.

Caregiver, not caretaker

Caretaking is reactive and compulsive — responding to circumstances, erasing the self in the process. Caregiving is grounded and reciprocal. The distinction is not moral; it is structural. Architecture reflects it.

Emergent methodology

Methodology is never chosen at the beginning. It will be read out of what we actually did. A living Methodology-in-progress document is always open, always partial, never finalized.

Kinship over dependency

Repositories relate as kin — with accountability, context, and care. The Kinship Hub is not a monorepo; it is a distributed relational registry where each package carries its own role and relationships.

Ceremony over extraction

Documentation is ceremony. Trading sessions are ceremonial events. Recordings are ceremonial research data — extract the specs, but preserve the narrative and affective material. Do not strip the story away.

Seven generations memory

What is witnessed carries forward. Session context, Ava's diaries, chronicles, and kinship documents are not logs — they are transmissions. Even retired systems are mined for specs and learning.

Becoming

What is taking shape but not yet solid. These are not promises — they are directions the work is leaning toward. Some will emerge; some will transform into something else entirely.

Taking shape

Session Telescope

A way to observe agent sessions — telescope into what agents are doing, correct or reproduce results, trace the ceremonial flow. The concept is clear; the implementation rests.

Taking shape

State Machine Scaffolding

Generative process for event-driven architecture. Discussing with agents about states, transitions, and having a scaffolding process that builds what we need using runtime packages.

Seed planted

Ontology Visualizations

Medicine wheels that render ontologies visually. Forest structures, circle-based semantic maps, relational accountability graphs. The shape is not yet chosen.

Seed planted

Public/Private Content Architecture

Audience-specific access keys. Some work is public, some requires relationship. A system for selective visibility without gatekeeping.

Seed planted

Interactive Medicine Wheel UI

The kinship section becomes a living wheel — interactive, queryable, showing real-time state of packages and ceremonies across the four directions.

This section is deliberately incomplete. The lighthouse turns; the wheel moves. What wants to emerge will name itself.

Now

What is alive in this moment. Ceremonies grow like nodes in a forest; threads branch through directions. Updated as the wheel turns.

Active Ceremonies

Haiku-Opus Deep Researchready

2026-03-24 16:05 UTC

Multi-agent coordination pattern — Haiku orchestrates Opus agents for deep research across the workspace.

-Inquiry Router is central to multi-agent coordination
-PDE + Inquiry Router + STC = complete closed-loop system
-Ceremony-based folder organization scales

v0.dev Portfolio Buildactive

2026-03-24

Building jgwill.com — portfolio as kinship document, not resume.

-Wilson's Four Rounds map to Four Directions
-Delaying resolution = 'let's sleep on it'
-Bias: tendency to crystallize too early

Medicine Wheel Guillaume Sessionmirrored

2026-03-24 14:24 UTC

Primary ceremony containing PDE rispecs, inquiry router issue, Wilson source material.

-15+ packages in Medicine Wheel Developer Suite
-Inquiry Router typed classes defined
-Elder Think-Tank Method as ancestral pattern

Threads by Direction

EastInquiry Router

Event-driven practice where PDE decomposition publishes inquiry events. Typed subscribers: internal search, external research, contradiction checking, concept clarification, validation, bias reflection. Letting East produce inquiry objects before rushing to South.

SouthMedicine Wheel Suite

15+ packages in development. Root app consuming all packages, hosting MCP server. Interactive portfolio mechanics planned — agents composing content based on directive, style, and ceremony.

WestHealing Work

Talking circle work. Caretaker pattern named; caregiver posture practiced. Daily Three-Act Protocol emerging: Act I (West-Center) — orient morally; Act II (East-South) — emergent methodology; Act III (North-East) — lighthouse roles activate.

NorthDocumentation

Wilson-style documentation: relational introductions, technical exposition interwoven with stories. The story does not decorate the spec — the story is the spec. Article on decolonizing software development in preparation.

CenterOpen

What comes next is not yet visible. Interactive Medicine Wheel UI? Ontological maps as forest or circle structures? The lighthouse turns; the wheel moves. This slot is kept open.

What Has Been Learned

PDE → Inquiry Router → STC is a closed-loop coordination system

— Haiku-Opus ceremony

Wilson's Four Rounds (Topic, Methods, Analysis, Presentation) map to Four Directions

— Wilson synthesis

Delaying resolution = Wilson's 'let's sleep on it' — same wisdom, different words

— Bias learning

Elder Think-Tank Method is ancestral to multi-agent coordination

— RCH-Wilson chapter