Aleutian Research

The code intelligence skill tree

A branching taxonomy of machine-understanding of code, from lexical matching to proof-carrying edits — mapped to the projects that occupy each node. Read bottom-up: foundations at the base, the speculative frontier at the top.

Ongoing research · last pass 2026-08-10
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Node size = occupancy · solid = built (colour = status) · hollow dashed = nobody has built it · click any node for its card · moons = toggled projects, fixed clock position per project. On a phone: pinch to zoom, drag to pan — the full map is best on a desktop.
Project traces — toggle to overlay occupancy
Source: AGNTCON research pass, updated 2026-08 with the CPG/security lineage and the 2024–25 graph-localization literature. Empty nodes are rendered prominently by design — they are the finding. Disclosure: we built one of the mapped systems — Trace — and stopped developing it in spring 2026.
58 nodes · 10 projects
Cite as: Aleutian Research, "The Code Intelligence Skill Tree," aleutian.ai/research, retrieved YYYY-MM-DD. Individual nodes are linkable — click one and share the URL.
Got a correction, or a system the map missed? Write to research@aleutian.ai.