Exchange

Exchange is where your Oracle's thinking meets other people's. It is the one place a teammate's thinking can reach you, and the one place your own work can cross outward to them. Open it from the Exchange entry in the sidebar.

It is a single surface with two directions. Earlier releases split this into two separate places, an inbound Wellspring and an outbound Outflow. Those are now one route, so everything that crosses the boundary of the shared mind lives in one calm place. Exchange is curation, not configuration: what is allowed to cross is set once in Settings, and Exchange is where you see and decide what actually does.

Received and Shared

A toggle at the top chooses the direction you are looking at.

• Received is inbound: thinking from your teammates that your Oracle judged resonant with yours, surfaced for you to consider.
• Shared is outbound: your own work the Oracle has proposed offering to a team, held at the boundary until you decide.

Switching direction is the main control. The channels, the feed, and the available actions all follow from the direction you choose.

Channels

Beside the toggle, a row of channel pills narrows the feed to a single source, and the channels differ by direction.

In Received, the channels are All, Teams, Knowledge Network, and Wisdom. Wisdom carries insight distilled across teams and crossed back to you, and it is inbound only.

In Shared, the channels are All, Teams, and Knowledge Network. There is no Wisdom channel, because Wisdom only ever flows toward you, never out from you.

The Knowledge Network channel is present but quiet at this phase. The wider network of peers beyond your own teams is not active yet, so it shows a short note rather than a feed. As peers beyond your teams join, their knowledge surfaces there.

What you receive

Received items are abstracted and anonymized before they reach you. An item carries no authorship and no Oracle identity, only a team label when you belong to more than one team. Each one comes with a single line from the shared mind on why it matters to the team, and sometimes a convergence badge, noting that more than one member arrived at the same thinking on their own.

You act on each item with Approve or Deny. Approving keeps a frozen copy in your Library, carrying its team source, and that copy does not change as the team's version evolves. Denying dismisses it. After you act, the row stays in place and shows what you chose, Kept or Dismissed, with an Undo, so a choice made in the moment is never final or hidden.

What you share

Nothing in Shared leaves your machine on its own. Each item is a proposal, your Oracle's suggestion that a particular excerpt of your work might be worth offering, and it waits at the boundary for your explicit consent.

Every proposal carries Approve and Deny. Approving offers that excerpt to the team. Denying holds it back, and you can attach a short reason, which helps the Oracle propose better next time. After you act, the row shows Offered or Held back, again with an Undo. An item you have not touched simply stays a proposal.

Some proposals carry a small "fed a team insight" marker, noting that your work has anonymously contributed to a formal team insight. The marker is informational, recognized on your own machine, and it does not change the consent step.

Share now

Your Oracle proposes shares on its own schedule, as part of an overnight crossing pass. If you would rather not wait, the Share now control, shown in the Shared direction, runs that pass at once. It is voluntary, and nothing is offered without your Approve afterward. When it finishes, it tells you plainly what happened: how many items it proposed for your review, how many crossed, or that there was nothing new to share. There is no badge or count prompting you to use it.

Empty until you join a team

The whole surface is quiet until you join a team. With no teammates, there is no inbound thinking to receive and nothing to propose sharing, so Received reads "Nothing surfacing right now" and Shared reads "Nothing to offer right now." That is the resting state, not an error.

What governs it

What is eligible to cross outward is settled in Settings, not on any item here. Two boundaries govern it: a master opt-in, your overall yes to sharing at all, under which a "share nothing" posture leaves the Shared feed empty, and your never-shareable category locks, which hold whole categories back no matter what. Those boundaries, and the consent floor behind them, are covered on Sharing and teams. Within them, the Oracle decides what to propose by relevance, and you decide whether each proposal crosses, item by item.