Model Context Protocol
How shared stories create coherence, build trust, and facilitate information gain across domains
Narrative serves as perhaps the most important structural element for aligning ātangible systems across micro, mezzo, and macro domains. Unlike traditional structural elements that rely on rigid hierarchies or formal rules, narratives create coherence through shared meaning, enabling information gain and alignment in systems that cannot be fully defined or contained in concepts.
Narratives function as meta-level connectors that transcend the tangible-intangible dichotomy, providing:
Narratives connect disparate elements of an ecosystem by creating a unified story that stakeholders across different domains can understand and relate to.
When information is embedded within a narrative structure, it becomes more transferable, memorable, and actionable, increasing the overall information gain throughout the system.
Narratives naturally incorporate purpose and meaning, helping to align system behavior with human-centered goals and values.
Shared narratives foster trust among agents in a system by creating common ground and shared understanding, which is essential for information exchange in "unhappy" markets.
By providing context and meaning, narratives help reduce uncertainty about future outcomes, making it easier to assess and hedge risks in systems like small business, independent film, and affordable housing.
This interactive visualization demonstrates how narrative elements flow through an ātangible system, creating connections and facilitating information gain across domains.
Narrative structures are particularly powerful in transforming "unhappy" markets characterized by poor information flow, low trust, and high uncertainty regarding future outcomes.
In the independent film ecosystem, narrative functions at multiple levels:
The MCP framework leverages these narrative structures to improve information flow between traditionally siloed agents, reducing uncertainty about future outcomes and creating more predictable value chains.
Small businesses struggle with high uncertainty regarding future cash flows. Narrative structures help by:
When lenders and small businesses share narrative frameworks, information asymmetry decreases and financing becomes more accessible.
The affordable housing ecosystem benefits from narrative structures through:
By embedding affordable housing projects within compelling narratives, the MCP framework helps reduce uncertainty and attract investment to this traditionally underserved market.
The Model Context Protocol implements narrative as a structural element through:
Specialized agents within the system that focus on creating, maintaining, and evolving system narratives
Standardized ways of constructing and sharing narratives that maximize information gain
Measurements of narrative coherence, reach, and impact on system alignment
Processes where narratives evolve based on system feedback, creating ever more aligned and effective structural elements
By explicitly incorporating narrative as a key structural element, the MCP framework transforms "unhappy" markets characterized by poor information flow, low trust, and high uncertainty into more coherent, aligned, and productive ātangible systems.
When a film project is embedded within a compelling narrative framework:
The result is a 3-4x increase in information gain across the ecosystem, leading to more efficient resource allocation and higher success rates.
Explore how adding narrative elements to agent interactions affects information gain and system alignment.