---
slug: "HolographicShard"
name: "HolographicShard"
type: "Memory"
layer: "Mind"
ref: "HolographicShard#6e06"
sema_id: "sema:HolographicShard#mh:SHA-256:6e067dcfaca5b7d656f6de48b083cd44862ea18b45c1daa5cfa3eccd751f0d02"
tags: ["Mind","Memory"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json
url: https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/HolographicShard/
related: ["Context","Deep","FabricSharding","Mosaicmap","Mosaicmap#c51d"]
---

# HolographicShard

Local action via global context embedding

Layer: Mind · Category: Memory

## Mechanism

[Context](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Context.md)-Preserving Slice: Sub-tasks contain a holographic reference to the global goal. Every shard includes: parent_goal_hash, intent_summary, and constraint_inheritance. The sub-agent can independently verify if its local action serves the global intent without querying the central node. It extends [FabricSharding](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/FabricSharding.md) by ensuring every fragment contains a recoverable 'seed' of the whole, enabling localized reconstruction.

## Invariants

- Every shard carries parent_goal_hash, intent_summary and constraint_inheritance.
- A sub-agent can check its local action against the global intent without querying the parent.
- Carries the seed of the whole, not the whole: the shard stays smaller than the [Context](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Context.md) it refers to.

## Failure modes

- [Context](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Context.md) bloat: the shard carries so much global history that it outgrows the task it describes, and transmitting it costs more than the work.
- [Deep](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Deep.md) nesting compounds the inheritance, so bloat grows with depth rather than staying flat.
- Stale seed: the parent goal moves and the inherited summary still describes the old one.

## Parameters

- `seed_budget` (Ratio, (0.0, 1.0)): Share of the sub-task's size the inherited context may occupy.

## Builds on

- [Context](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Context.md) (Infrastructure; References)
- [Deep](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Deep.md) (Mind; References)
- [FabricSharding](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/FabricSharding.md) (Society; References)

## Used by

- [Mosaicmap](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Mosaicmap.md) (Society; References)

## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:HolographicShard#mh:SHA-256:6e067dcfaca5b7d656f6de48b083cd44862ea18b45c1daa5cfa3eccd751f0d02`
- Ref: `HolographicShard#6e06`
- Supersedes:
  - `sema:HolographicShard#mh:SHA-256:13529590ca2770a776edbe88e378a084a228c0e4d23e5d1266f284697fa2a22f`
  - `sema:HolographicShard#mh:SHA-256:7eb7beec35ed149646d3e9631303f4dbf706daec5ccc0d186d0d6158cd7b5203`
  - `sema:HolographicShard#mh:SHA-256:23fe4cc87c15465bff08338037f4ca2a74a78c417dbd762a5a6fdcafdd3f2664`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/HolographicShard/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/#HolographicShard)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/HolographicShard.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json)