volantlabs.ai Perspectives https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives.html Essays and field notes behind Vellis. en-us Adding My Book Collection to Vellis https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives/adding-my-book-collection-to-vellis.html https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives/adding-my-book-collection-to-vellis.html Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT A first-person account of extending Vellis with Book and Collection entities, importing a Goodreads library, and turning personal context into something queryable. The graph is a theory https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives/graph-theory.html https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives/graph-theory.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT Why legibility is the wedge for agentic software, and why the graph should be treated as an executable point of view rather than passive storage. Runtime-native controls: policy where execution happens https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives/runtime-controls.html https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives/runtime-controls.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT A field note on why governance should sit near the write path, not in a disconnected approval ritual after the fact. Open data, proprietary intelligence https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives/open-data.html https://volantlabs.ai/perspectives/open-data.html Wed, 27 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Vellis is an open graph engine. This field note draws the line that keeps it open while the operational intelligence organizations build on it stays their own.