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Read an interface from both sides

Connect what a person sees with the structure an agent can use.

This path connects the interface a person sees with the structure an agent can use. AFS provides explicit resource addresses and supported operations. If those ideas are unfamiliar, begin with the AFS foundation path. Then distinguish views, projections, displays, sessions and inspection.

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  1. What does AFS-UI add?

    AFS-UI treats the interface as a projection over operational context that humans and agents can work with.

  2. What does the agent see behind a button?

    A visual control can correspond to named structure, state and actions, rather than only a region of pixels.

  3. Can the view change while the object stays the same?

    Separating context from projection lets multiple views refer to the same operational objects.

  4. How are a display and a session different?

    A display presents and accepts interaction; a session groups the operational state associated with an interaction context.

  5. What would looking behind the interface reveal?

    Inspection should expose the actual structure of the active view and its relationship to state.