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) from his notes, reviewed by him 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

Markdown

For language models and agents: start at /llms.txt. This page in Markdown: /library/notes/iinventedlight-overview.md.