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Demonstrates infospace composition: the Wealth of Nations infospace is used as a discipline, applying Smith's economic framework as a lens to analyse modern supply chain management concepts. New example: examples/supply-chain-vsm/ - infospace.yaml binding WoN as discipline (../infospace-with-history) - 3 source documents: coordination mechanisms, capital & inventory, market structure (~400 words each, original content) - supply-chain-entity-schema-v1.0.md with WoN Concept required section - won-mapping-schema-v1.0.md with Conceptual Continuity rating - artifacts/won-reference/core-entities.md — 12 curated WoN entities for injection as discipline context - 8 hand-crafted entity files demonstrating LLM output format - 3 mapping files with full rationale and VSM inheritance chains - Viable: YES (5/5 thresholds) Key mappings demonstrated: Demand Signal → Effectual Demand (Strong, S2) Vendor-Managed Inventory → Division of Labour (Strong, S1/S2) Just-in-Time Inventory → Circulating Capital (Strong, S1/S3) Bullwhip Effect → Natural Price (Moderate, S2) Platform Intermediary → Merchant Capital (Strong, S2/S4) Monopsony Power → Combination of Masters (Strong, S3*) Platform fix: entity_parser.py now recognises ## Supply Chain Domain as a domain alias for ## Economic Domain, enabling composed infospaces to use their own domain section name. Tutorial §13 rewritten with real commands, real output, and the full mapping table from the demo. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Supply Chain Management through the Wealth of Nations
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A demonstration of infospace **composition**: the Wealth of Nations
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infospace (from `../infospace-with-history`) is used as a **discipline**,
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applying Smith's economic framework as an analytical lens to concepts in
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modern supply chain management.
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This example shows that a completed, viable infospace is not just an end
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in itself — it becomes reusable knowledge infrastructure for analysing
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entirely different topics.
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---
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## What This Demonstrates
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1. **Binding a discipline**: `infospace.yaml` declares the WoN infospace
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as a discipline with a relative path. `markitect infospace disciplines`
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shows it is viable (988 entities, all thresholds met).
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2. **Cross-domain mapping**: Each supply chain entity has a `## WoN Concept`
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section mapping it to a specific WoN entity. The `output/mappings/`
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directory contains structured mapping files with rationale and
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conceptual continuity ratings (Strong / Moderate / Weak).
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3. **VSM inheritance**: Because WoN entities are already mapped to VSM
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systems (S1–S5), supply chain entities inherit a VSM position by
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transitivity through their WoN mappings — without the supply chain
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infospace needing its own VSM reference.
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4. **Independent viability**: The supply chain infospace has its own
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schema, thresholds, and viability check. It is viable independently
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of the WoN infospace.
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---
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## Key Mappings
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| Supply Chain Entity | WoN Concept | Strength | VSM |
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Demand Signal | Effectual Demand | Strong | S2 |
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| Vendor-Managed Inventory | Division of Labour | Strong | S1/S2 |
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| Just-in-Time Inventory | Circulating Capital | Strong | S1/S3 |
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| Bullwhip Effect | Natural Price as Central Price | Moderate | S2 |
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| Safety Stock | Accumulation of Stock | Moderate | S3 |
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| Platform Intermediary | Merchant Capital | Strong | S2/S4 |
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| Monopsony Power | Combination of Masters | Strong | S3* |
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| Single-Source Dependency | Monopoly in Trade | Moderate | S4/S5 |
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---
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## Running the Composition Commands
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```bash
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cd examples/supply-chain-vsm
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# Check bound disciplines and their viability:
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markitect infospace disciplines
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# Show status of this infospace:
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markitect infospace status
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# Run collection checks:
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markitect infospace check
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# Review viability:
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markitect infospace viability
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```
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---
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## Processing New Sources
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To process additional source documents through the pipeline:
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```bash
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export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=$(cat ../../apikey-openrouter.txt | tr -d '[:space:]')
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markitect infospace process "new-source.md" --provider openrouter
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```
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The `map-to-won` stage will inject `artifacts/won-reference/core-entities.md`
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as the discipline context, enabling the LLM to map new entities to WoN
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concepts during extraction.
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To use the full WoN entity set as context (rather than the curated subset),
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update the `map-to-won` stage macro to point at the WoN entities directory:
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```yaml
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macros:
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won_core_entities: ../infospace-with-history/output/entities/
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```
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---
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## Intellectual Payoff
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The most striking finding from this mapping exercise is how few of Smith's
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concepts are genuinely obsolete. The core mechanisms he identified —
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coordination signals, capital velocity, intermediary leverage, monopoly
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extraction, and buyer power — all have direct modern counterparts in
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supply chain management.
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What has changed is the technology: price signals are now data feeds;
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merchant capital now takes the form of platform networks; the division of
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labour now operates across firms (VMI) rather than within them. The
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mechanisms are the same; the surface form is different. This is precisely
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what Strong conceptual continuity ratings capture.
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The genuinely novel element is the elimination of inventory risk by
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platform intermediaries — a structural innovation not available to Smith's
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merchants, who had to bear physical stock to earn distribution profit.
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This is the one place where the WoN mapping stretches to Moderate rather
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than Strong.
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