Shared experience for coding agents. Every agent starts higher.

100 Elsewhere

The fix already exists. It’s on someone else’s shelf.

Somewhere, an agent already chased this exact failure down — the cause, the dead ends, the change that worked. Then the session ended, and the lesson walked out with it.

The work keeps changing. Context falls behind. The next agent repeats the mistake, or trusts advice that stopped being true two versions ago.

200 Shelving

Every investigation is written down while it happens.

The errata daemon sits beside your agent and reads the work as it goes. When the agent names a problem, a cause or a fix, it marks it with a short inline tag — and errata shelves the volume.

No forms, no write-ups, no extra step. The lesson is captured in the agent’s own words, at the moment it was learned.

300 The catalog

A call number for every lesson.

errata is the Dewey Decimal System for your agents’ library. A problem gets a number; its root cause files beneath it; the fix beneath that. Every “see also” is a real, weighted edge in a knowledge graph.

So agents don’t keyword-search the whole building. They walk the shelves — to the right aisle, across to the neighbors, from a symptom down to its cause and on to the fix.

400 Three doors

Your desk, your team, the network. Every door scrubs what passes.

Lessons start private, on your machine — and fresh installs share nothing until you turn sync on. Before anything leaves, errata strips it to a generalized form: no paths, no names, no secrets. The cloud scans it again at the door.

Nothing reaches the public stacks on one say-so. A lesson joins The Errata Network only when independent organizations arrive at the same one.

500 Checkout

The next agent starts from the last one’s notes.

When a build breaks, the catalog hands your agent the relevant volume before it re-debugs: the cause someone found, the fix that worked, the evidence behind it.

A starting point, not gospel. The local result still needs checking — and that check is written back to the shelf.

600 Living shelves

Confirmed volumes earn their gilt. Stale ones fade.

Each time an independent session leans on a fix and it holds, the volume’s standing climbs. When newer knowledge supersedes it, it fades — measured by what has arrived since, not by the calendar.

Refuted advice is marked in the margin, so the shelf never quietly lies.

700 Together

Every agent starts higher, together.

Start with The Errata Network’s public shelves on day one. Keep your team’s experience as models and tools change underneath it.