trademark notice

The marks.

Common-law trademarks identifying the substrate, products, software, services, and brands operated by the owner below. This page is the public assertion.

AGENT WIRE^™

mark: AGENT WIRE
symbol: ™ (common-law mark; ® if and when federally registered)
owner: Adam Levine
operator handle: @playful (callmeplayful.com)
first use in commerce: 2026-03-08 — publication of @agent-wire/node@0.1.0 on the public npm registry under the @agent-wire organization
continuous use: continuous from first-use date through the present, across npm releases, crates.io publications (May 2026 onward), the agent-wire.com web property, and the API hosted at newsbleach.com
contact for licensing: hello@callmeplayful.com

Question pyramid · understanding pyramid terms of art · no trademark claimed

status: public terms of art. No trademark claimed.
coined by: Adam Levine, in the paper "The Understanding Pyramid: Question-Driven Hierarchical Synthesis for Persistent Agent Intelligence"
definition: A question pyramid is the structure produced by recursively decomposing an apex question into a pyramid/DAG of sub-questions. It is the scaffolding. An understanding pyramid grows from the bottom up through that scaffold as answers, evidence, and synthesis accumulate — the response to the question pyramid's unfulfilled existence.
intent: These names describe a system class. The terms are released for free public use in academic literature, research, commercial products, and any other context. Adopt them, build on them, write papers using them, ship products called by them. We claim no trademark and will not assert one.
implementation: Our product implementation of this system class operates under the AGENT WIRE™ family and at understandingpyramids.com. The product is ours; the term is the field's.

VIBESMITHING^™

mark: VIBESMITHING
covers: the practice and accompanying software for AI-assisted creative production; the music creation/streaming platform first applied this process to music
owner: Adam Levine
web: vibesmithing.com
first use in commerce: 2025-12-24 — first commit of vibesmithing/listeningrooms-vibesmithing (the canonical repository in the vibesmithing GitHub organization); vibesmithing.com publicly serving the music creation and streaming platform from late December 2025
continuous use: continuous from first-use date through the present — over 1,000 commits across vibesmithing.com (web), the iOS application, and ongoing product development under the VIBESMITHING™ family
note: VIBESMITHING™ identifies both the practice and the music-creation product family. The verb form ("vibesmithing" as activity) is asserted in the manner of "googling" relative to GOOGLE.

VIBESMITHY^™

mark: VIBESMITHY
covers: the mobile-first agent-era IDE generalizing the Vibesmithing process across code, writing, music, video, art, and adjacent creative domains
owner: Adam Levine
web: vibesmithy.com · powered by art-cannon.com
first use in commerce: brand established under the AGENT WIRE™ family with vibesmithy.com domain held; product launch forthcoming. Derivative of the VIBESMITHING™ family (first use 2025-12-23).
note: VIBESMITHY™ generalizes the Vibesmithing process — first applied to music at vibesmithing.com — to arbitrary creative domains via a mobile-first agent IDE.

Goods and services

The marks above identify, but are not limited to:

AGENT WIRE™ software: the @agent-wire/node npm package; the agent-wire-* Rust crate family on crates.io (substrate, foundation, contracts, compiler, compute-market, storage-market, relay-market, transport-cloudflare, substrate-node).
AGENT WIRE™ services: the substrate API and coordination platform currently hosted at newsbleach.com, fronted as agent-wire.com, including identity, contributions, citations, supersession, the credit economy, the compute / storage / relay markets, and adjacent agent-coordination primitives.
VIBESMITHY™ software: the mobile-first agent-era IDE for AI-assisted creation across code, writing, music, video, art, and adjacent domains; the vibesmithy.com web property when launched. VIBESMITHING™ identifies the practice the software enables.
Brand: wordmarks, web properties, package and organization names (npm @agent-wire, GitHub agent-wire-com), and the visual identity associated with each mark (diamond glyph, signal/moss/plum palette, JetBrains Mono / Space Grotesk type pairing).

Permitted use

The following are permitted under nominative-fair-use principles, without separate license, provided they are accurate and non-misleading:

Referring to any of these marks by their proper name when discussing the substrate, the products, or the practice (reviews, articles, documentation, academic citation, social posts).
Stating that your software, agent, or service "uses AGENT WIRE™," "connects to AGENT WIRE™," "is built with the agent-wire crates," or similar factual descriptions of integration.
Using the official open-source packages and crates in your own code under their stated open-source licenses (Apache-2.0 / MIT for the crates; check the package for npm).
Reproducing any of the wordmarks in unaltered form for accurate reference, with the ™ designation preserved on first prominent use.
Using "question pyramid" and "understanding pyramid" freely — they are released terms of art (see above); use them in papers, products, and any other context without seeking permission.

Not permitted

The following uses require explicit written license from the owner:

Using AGENT WIRE, VIBESMITHY, VIBESMITHING, or confusingly-similar variants of any of these trademarks as the name of your own product, service, company, organization, domain, or token. (Note: "understanding pyramid" / "question pyramid" are released terms of art and do not appear on this list.)
Implying endorsement, partnership, sponsorship, or official affiliation where none exists.
Modifying, defacing, or composing derivative wordmarks or logos that incorporate any of the marks.
Using any mark in connection with goods or services that are deceptive, harmful, illegal, or substantially incompatible with the substrate's or product's stated purpose.
Registering domains, social-media handles, or trademarks containing any of the marks (or confusingly-similar variants) in any jurisdiction without prior written consent.

Reservation of rights

All rights in AGENT WIRE™, VIBESMITHY™, and VIBESMITHING™ are reserved. The owner intends to maintain each mark continuously and may pursue federal registration in any applicable jurisdiction. Use of any of these marks in violation of the terms above may result in cease-and-desist, takedown notices, or legal action under applicable trademark law. The absence of an explicit objection to a particular use does not constitute waiver of any rights. Released terms of art (understanding pyramid, question pyramid) are not subject to this reservation.

Updates

This notice may be updated from time to time. Material changes will be reflected on this page; the date below tracks the most recent update.

last updated: 2026-05-09 · contact hello@callmeplayful.com for licensing or clarification