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I'm Nelson. I spent seven years in behavioral health research - peer support, workforce systems, publishing on why 81% job satisfaction and 42% intent to leave can exist in the same workforce at the same time. I learned how intelligent agents break when you force them to perform coherence without giving them a map.

Then I noticed AI systems break the same way.

Now I formalize theorems in Lean 4 that prove anomaly detection actually works. I write about the structural parallels between AI hallucination and employee burnout. I filed a NIST RFI on AI agent security that got picked up as a wire story. I disclosed a CVSS 9.1 to OpenHands and a watering-hole attack vector to Anthropic. I publish a newsletter called The Weave that connects threads across domains nobody thinks belong together - and they keep being right.

The infrastructure lives at @Project-Navi. Sponsor that if you depend on the tools.

Sponsor me if you want the person who connects the threads to keep pulling them. The cross-domain pattern recognition. The writing. The formal verification research at midnight. The parts that don't fit in a repo description but make everything in the repos possible.

There's no team. It's me, my dog Luthien, a mass-produced amount of coffee, and the stubbornness to keep proving things nobody asked me to prove. Yet.

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10 people who think cross-domain pattern recognition between formal verification and behavioral health is worth keeping alive. That's it. Not a revenue target. A headcount. I want to know there are 10 of you out there.

Featured work

  1. Project-Navi/cd-formalization

    Lean 4 + Mathlib formalization of the Creative Determinant framework — 15 theorems proved with zero sorry, CI-enforced via lake build --wfail

    Lean 1
  2. Project-Navi/fd-formalization

    Lean 4 + Mathlib formalization: (u,v)-flower graph construction, hub distance = u^g, and log-ratio convergence to log(u+v)/log(u)

    Lean 1
  3. Fieldnote-Echo/claude-secure-config

    Security rules, cognitive scaffolding, and hook enforcement for Claude Code — a 3-layer framework for human-AI partnership (hooks → rules → scaffold)

    Python 1
  4. Project-Navi/takens-formalization

    Lean 4 + Mathlib formalization of delay embedding theory for dynamical systems

    Lean 1
  5. Project-Navi/navi-creative-determinant

    The Creative Determinant: autopoietic closure as a nonlinear elliptic BVP on a compact Riemannian manifold, with Lean 4-verified existence conditions (15 theorems, zero sorry)

    TeX 3

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