A page about an icon (and the story that uses it) doubles as a specification. Software can extract the SVG for interfaces, and it can also extract the accompanying rules—small snippets of wiki-code, checklists, and patterns that define a workflow. In the Hitchhikers demos, this pairing functions as a “spell”: an icon plus the small piece of behavior it implies. Chained together, these spells become governance software—guides that help people make, review, and publish decisions with clarity and provenance while remaining forkable and remixable.
The result is a loop. Stories produce icons. Icons clarify practice. Practice becomes guides. Guides become software. Software, in turn, feeds back into stories as we observe what works and revise both the iconography and the rules. Throughout, everything remains permissively licensed and federated: small files, small pages, easy to fork, easy to remix, and ready to project on a wall for a seminar or performance.