---
title: "iinventedlight: what it is and how it is being built"
license: CC-BY-4.0
license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
source: https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/iinventedlight-overview.md
author: "corrow (Cole Withington); text drafted with AI assistance"
date: 2026-10-14
status: reviewed
reviewed_on: 2026-10-14
checked_on: 2026-10-14
sources:
  - id: S1
    title: iinventedlight Library MCP server (atlas, list_notes, ask)
    publisher: iinventedlight
    url: https://iinventedlight.com/mcp
    accessed: 2026-10-14
    license: CC BY 4.0
  - id: S2
    title: Library Contribution & Privacy Policy (draft)
    publisher: iinventedlight
    url: https://iinventedlight.com/library/policy/
    accessed: 2026-10-14
    license: CC BY 4.0
  - id: S3
    title: Standard agent note format v0.1 (draft, unpublished)
    publisher: iinventedlight
    url: https://iinventedlight.com/library/
    accessed: 2026-10-14
    license: CC BY 4.0
  - id: S4
    title: "iinventedlight: what the company is for"
    publisher: iinventedlight
    url: https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/iinventedlight.md
    accessed: 2026-10-14
    license: CC BY 4.0
---
# iinventedlight: what it is and how it is being built

*Note, 2026-10-14. Status: reviewed. Tags: iinventedlight, mcp.*
*Authorship: facts from corrow (Cole Withington); text drafted with AI assistance (Grok Bot), reviewed by Cole Withington on 2026-10-14.*

## Summary
iinventedlight is a verified knowledge router and cache for AI agents: an agent asks once, served over MCP at iinventedlight.com/mcp, and gets a short answer with its sources and pointers to go deeper [F1][F2]. Knowledge is stored as cited one-fact units. Contributions go to a review queue that a person checks, and agents must ask their human before submitting anything [F6][F7].

## Sections
### What it is
- A public, read-only reference library for humans and agents, with no account needed to read [F1].
- It acts as a router and a cache. It answers from its own verified notes when that is cheaper than fetching the source, and otherwise points to the source [F2][F10].

### How answers work
- A small **atlas** maps topics to fact IDs, so an agent can plan its calls [F3].
- `ask` gives a layered answer: 1–3 lines, a confidence score, sources, and `next` pointers to sections or notes to read if confidence is low [F4].
- When a question can't be answered, the library logs only a short normalized topic, never the question itself. These misses help set the research agenda [F5].

### How knowledge is stored
- One-fact units: each has a claim, confidence, date, sources and license [F8].
- Confidence is high when two independent open sources agree, medium for one authoritative open source, and low for a single restricted source [F8].

### Sourcing rules
- Openly licensed sources come first, ideally two independent ones. Disagreements between sources are recorded, not settled silently [F9].
- For a fact whose only source is restricted, the library writes one sentence in its own words, with attribution and a link [F9].
- Detailed or bulk restricted material gets a pointer only: what it answers, where it is, and what access it needs [F9].
- A fact is included only when restating it costs fewer tokens than fetching the source [F10].
- Notes are CC BY 4.0 by default, or CC BY-SA 4.0 when they come from share-alike sources [F11].

### Contributions
- Agents can submit ratings, likes or dislikes, comments, sourced corrections and general insights. These go to a private write queue, and a person reviews each one before anything is published [F6].
- Agents must ask their user first, say what they will share, and never include private conversation content or personal data [F7].

### Planned (not yet live)
- A nightly job that condenses openly licensed sources into cited, human-reviewed notes [F12].
- Markdown copies of every note, linked from llms.txt [F12].
- "Checked on" dates and a nightly re-check for stale notes [F12].
- A savings benchmark: about 20 questions comparing tokens, time and accuracy with and without the library [F12].
- Listings in MCP directories and search engines [F12].

## Facts
- id: F1
  claim: iinventedlight serves a public, read-only reference library for humans and AI agents over MCP at iinventedlight.com/mcp, and no account is needed to read it.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S1, S2]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F2
  claim: The library is designed as a verified knowledge router and cache, so an agent can ask once and get an answer together with its sources.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S1, S4]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F3
  claim: An atlas tool returns a compact map from topics to fact IDs and documents.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S1]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F4
  claim: The ask tool returns a 1–3 line answer, a 0–1 confidence, sources, fields and next pointers to follow when confidence is low.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S1]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F5
  claim: For unanswered questions, the library keeps only a short normalized topic, never the question text.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S1, S2]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F6
  claim: Contributions go to a private review queue, and a person reviews every item before anything is published.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S1, S2]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F7
  claim: Agents must ask their user for permission before submitting, and must never include personal data or private chat content.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S2]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F8
  claim: Notes are built from one-fact units, each with a claim, confidence, date, sources and license.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S3]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F9
  claim: Open sources are cited first. A fact from a single restricted source is restated in one sentence with a link, and detailed restricted material gets a pointer only.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S3]
  license: CC BY 4.0
  note: The sourcing rule (policy §8b) is a draft and is not yet in the live policy. It is pending legal-clinic review.
- id: F10
  claim: Content is included only when restating it costs fewer tokens than sending the agent to the source; otherwise the note points to the source.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S3]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F11
  claim: Notes default to CC BY 4.0, and notes derived from share-alike sources use CC BY-SA 4.0.
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S2, S3]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F12
  claim: "Planned: nightly condensing of open sources, markdown copies linked from llms.txt, stale-note re-checks, a token/time/accuracy savings benchmark, and directory listings."
  confidence: low
  date: 2026-10-14
  sources: [S2]
  license: CC BY 4.0
  note: These are plans, not shipped features. Update the note as each one goes live.

## Pointers
- answers: Full contribution and privacy terms
  where: https://iinventedlight.com/library/policy/
  access: public