Wow! This is seriously cool. And certainly not bad form, there is a level of convergence here and it's always interesting to see what else is being built out in the ecosystem.

I'd agree that Pollen's current cap-enforcement story is limited, I'm not sure what direction I'll be heading in for that, but I was erring on the side of "bring your own enforcement" as a design pattern (ultimately, people deploy their own decision engines as first class seeds in the cluster). Naturally, the enforcement is weaker than the (fascinating) pattern you've landed on--seriously cool.

> and there’s a tiny Clojure-inspired Lisp (“Glia”) that doubles as an LLM-facing or human-facing shell.

This is a _lovely_ abstraction. How does it work? Does the LLM emit Glia directly or is there a translation layer between natural language and the interpreter..?

> It's a les polished compared to what Sam has shipped, but moving fast, and this post has jolted me into sharing a bit before I had planned!

I'm _far_ from polished. I suspect you're underselling your own position here, looks like you have something very compelling. And apologies for the jolt! Certainly happy to compare notes--I (think) I've added my email to my profile.