A REACTIVE CELL RUNTIME · PLAYTESTED IN PUBLIC

The spreadsheet
grew senses.

SuperInstance builds on quilt — a runtime where cells don't just hold numbers, they watch each other, act on what they see, learn in public, and book every decision into a tamper-evident receipt chain. Below, four of those sheets are already alive. No screenshots. The cells are running.

Watch the cells Where it beats the big players
6
living projects
187✓
green checks
12
engine patches
36/36
upstream tests kept
WHY A NEW INSTINCT

Three primitives the classic grid never had

A formula computes. A listener notices. A weight in a visible cell can be argued with, nudged, and improved — by you, or by the sheet itself.

Rules are cells

Every rule — a trading clause, a poker read, a game's legality — is an inspectable cell you can click, question, and edit. Not a hidden function. The sheet is the spec.

Watching is a primitive

Listeners fire when a cell changes: flash a rule, halt a trade, refuse a payment, play a move. Reactivity isn't a plugin — it's the substrate. The demos below run on it.

Learning is visible

Weights live in cells you can watch drift. Improvement passes gates, and every promotion is a receipt in an fnv1a64 chain. You never have to trust the black box — the box is glass.

LIVE · RUNNING IN THIS PAGE

Four sheets, already alive

Each patch below runs on a tiny reactive engine embedded in this page — the same semantics as the full quilt runtime: value cells, formulas with declared dependencies, listeners that fire on change. The mini-console in every patch is real engine traffic, sampled, not theater.

DEMO 01

Ocean-as-a-Sheet

336 VALUE CELLSWAVE FORMULATIDE GAUGE

A tide field where every cell is a cell. The wave formula h′ = (Σhₙ)/2 − h propagates energy through the grid; a listener on the tide gauge lights the foam when |h| crosses the surge line. Drop a stone and watch the cascade — reactivity as physics.

LISTENERtide.gauge · cell D7
h = 0.00
watch(tide.gauge) → if |h| > 0.55 · light foam cells, log surge
FORMULAwave.step
h′(x,y) = (h↑+h↓+h←+h→)/2 − h(x,y) · damping 0.994 · walls reflect
DEMO 02

Reversi, self-playing

pick=Σweightswpos VISIBLEapply-move

Two agents share one board sheet: TIDE reads a positional weight map, TERRA counts mobility. The pick formula evaluates every legal move; a listener applies the pick — which re-triggers the formula. The sheet plays itself. When a game ends, the loser's weight cells drift toward what beat it. You are watching the learning loop, not a replay of one.

2 TIDE · positional vs 2 TERRA · mobility TIDE to move
VALUE CELLSagent.wpos · TIDE's weights
8×8 heat map · darker = quiet square, brighter = territory the agent is learning to want
games played: 0 · last result —
DEMO 03

Hold'em — playing the players

odds: 0 TOKENSshape(opp)read composer

Pot odds are mechanical — a formula cell gets them for free, costing zero attention. The game happens elsewhere: across flop, turn and river, the shape formula reads OPP's bet sizes into a decision-shape — looseness, aggression, deception — and a listener speaks the read out loud. Slide focus down and your own cards literally fade into the environment, the way a good player's attention already has.

PREFLOP · community pot 40
A♥hole
9♠hole
your cards — watching them
OPP limps. No shape yet — the flop is where decision-making starts to have a silhouette.
FORMULAshape.opp · decision silhouette
looseness–
aggression–
deception–
observations0
DEMO 04

The signal desk

signal → confirmMOTH BUDGETquantum dice

A backtest where the tape, the indicators and the risk clause are all cells. The twist learned the hard way in quilt-quant/lab: a signal is a proposal, not an oracle — entries wait for a confirmation cell, and each entry can be validated by a true-random draw from a rationed quantum budget (mocked here, metered like the real moth-quantum API). Perception costs something; the meter keeps the score.

FORMULAsig.position
flat
enter iff signal & confirm & quantum OK · signal is a proposal — confirmation is the gate
ECONOMYmoth.budget
perception calls0 / 24
insight per call: –
equity (strategy)1.000
buy & hold1.000
max drawdown0.0%
completed trades0
THE HONEST MAP

Compared with the big players

Scored on the four things SuperInstance is actually about. Not a claim of superiority everywhere — a claim of a different point on the map.

PlayerParadigmLive reactivity
cell-to-cell, sub-second		 Cells that act
listeners · gates		 Learning in-sheet
visible weights · loops		 Provenance
receipts · chains
Excel + Copilotthe deep classic gridrecalc only—Solver, offline—
Google Sheets + Geminicollab gridshare-levelApps Script triggers—version history
Airtablerecords + viewsview refreshautomations out-of-sheet——
Notion AIdocs + blocks————
Observablereactive notebooksyes, dev-firstcode effectsby hand—
Bloomberg Terminalmarket data fortressdata feedsalertsclosedaudit trails
Hex / DeepnoteAI data notebooksrun-on-demand—AI suggests—
SuperInstance / quiltthe sheet is the agentcell-to-cell cascadewatch · condition · actweights as cells, gated loopsfnv1a64 receipt chains
Where the big players win today, said plainly: collaboration at enterprise scale, integration ecosystems, mobile, 10M-cell performance, compliance teams, and support desks. SuperInstance is a different bet — that the next step is not a smarter assistant next to the grid, but agency living inside the grid itself.
a living field → static compute cells act on their own humans drive every step Excel + Copilot Google Sheets Notion AI Airtable Coda · Rows Hex · Deepnote Observable Bloomberg Terminal SuperInstance cells that watch back
ONE ABSTRACTION, SIX PATCHES

The quilt so far

Every project below is the same claim tested in a new realm: rules as cells, effects as value pushes, learning as visible cell updates, decisions booked as receipts. None of the later projects needed new engine code — the abstraction held.

A quilt of nine living interface patches stitched together over a night ocean
Six patches, one seam. Each project stitched to the same reactive cloth — vendored engine, zero forks after patch 12.
PATCH 01 · INVESTIGATION

quilt-playtest

12 engine patches, an 11-probe dissent ledger, gesture math, federation — the engine learned to be trusted.

36/36 upstream tests kept green
PATCH 02 · PRODUCTION

quilt-tools

Ten tools in ten realms — pagers, ledgers, memory, triage, budgets — proving the template ships real software.

75/75 checks
PATCH 03 · PLAY

quilt-arcade

Five games as spreadsheets — reversi, gomoku, hold'em — rules as cells, flip cascades, visible learning loops.

55/55 checks
PATCH 04 · MARKETS

quilt-quant

The trading desk as a sheet: one value push re-prices everything; improvement only through an out-of-sample gate.

15/15 checks vs reference stack
PATCH 05 · AGENCY

quilt-quant / lab

The sheet IS the agent — simulation-first, signal-as-confirmation, entanglement veto, pruning by participation.

19/19 · live QRNG + GLM
PATCH 06 · COMPETITION

quilt-arena

Four rival minds play minesweeper & hearts, infer each other's formulas, under a rationed quantum perception budget.

23/23 · live championship
THE FLEET, FAR AND WIDE

Latest voyages

Two new expeditions landed this week: minds that infer hidden laws under probe rations, and a measurement of how doctrine drifts when houses trade logic.

VOYAGE 01 · PERCEPTION

The Inverse Oracle

Hand a mind a bred law and ration its probes. Adaptive economies recover off-spec life masks in 8 answers; mechanical never recovers ground truth at all. The sheet's reflex scars on a channel lie — and belief refuses to absorb it.

234 receipted rows · 11/11 smoke · opacity = a verdict
VOYAGE 02 · CULTURE

Doctrine Drift, measured

Foundry bloodline entropy NARROWS — every elite crowns in the first half of generations. At the bazaar border, re-traded families bounce 0/2: the immune system works, but no house has naturalized imported logic into doctrine yet.

18 receipted rows · replayable · honest negative
The old grid waits for you to ask. These cells answer before you do.
A rule you can't click is a rumor. Every rule is a cell.
Understanding should spread across cells, the way a tide spreads across a shore.
Randomness you pay for should earn its keep — metered, receipted, rationed like perception itself.
In cards, in markets, in mines: the odds are mechanical. The players are the game.