SKC Quickstart

This guide introduces the minimum SKC workflow without assuming a stable public CLI contract.

Goal

Start with structured knowledge, derive a semantic core, reconstruct the knowledge state and validate the result.

1. Start with explicit source knowledge

Example:

{
  "entities": [
    { "id": "system", "type": "software" },
    { "id": "artifact", "type": "evidence" }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "system",
      "type": "produces",
      "to": "artifact"
    }
  ]
}

2. Normalize semantic structure

SKC requires explicit objects and relations before canonical state can be reasoned about deterministically.

Conceptually:

Raw Input
    ↓
Normalize
    ↓
Semantic Graph

3. Derive a canonical semantic state

Equivalent semantic inputs should converge toward the same canonical representation where the contract defines them as equivalent.

Semantic Graph
      ↓
Canonicalization
      ↓
Canonical Semantic State

4. Reduce to a semantic core

The semantic core should preserve the minimum structure required for successful reconstruction under the defined SKC contract.

Canonical State
      ↓
Compression
      ↓
Semantic Core

5. Reconstruct

Semantic Core
      ↓
Reconstruction
      ↓
Reconstructed State

6. Validate

A successful SKC experiment should not report only a size reduction.

It should also measure reconstruction and structural equivalence.

Important metrics include:

• BlueprintSize
• SemanticCoreSize
• ReductionRatio
• CompressionRatio
• ReconstructionFidelity
• GraphEquivalence
• SemanticEntropy
• Deterministic

Next

Continue with SKC Architecture →.