๐Ÿงญ Holarchy Navigation, Custom UI & Animation Engine
Published on March 6, 2026 by David Rug

Hey friends! Quick update on InterBrain development. Since the last update, work has been completed on the following:

Holarchy Navigation


In addition to the existing Liminal Web UI, which displays horizontal social connections between dreams and dreamers, a new Holarchy UI has been added. It reveals the vertical connections between sub- and supermodules, allowing you to navigate the entire hierarchy of nested DreamNodes. By clicking on sub- or supermodules, you can easily traverse the whole structure โ€” really useful for seeing the structural relationships between the things you're working on and the knowledge you're holding.


Dream Explorer


A new circle-packing file navigator on the backside of every DreamNode. Browse any DreamNode's contents without leaving the InterBrain. Weighted layout shows folder sizes at a glance, seamless zoom transitions make deep navigation feel natural.


Orchestration Rewrite


The orchestration layer has been rewritten. Every interaction mode (search, copilot, holarchy nav, constellation, liminal web) now flows through a single unified state machine with declarative intent derivation. More reliable, and sets the foundation for what comes next.


Vault Health Check


New command: InterBrain: Vault Health Check. Scans your entire vault and repairs structural issues automatically โ€” renames folders to PascalCase, converts plain repos into proper DreamNodes, fixes broken submodule paths, syncs holarchy relationships into .udd metadata. Especially useful going forward: as the architecture evolves, this command will migrate existing DreamNodes into whatever structural format they need.

Custom UI


Place an index.html in any DreamNode and it becomes its own interactive app inside your Obsidian vault. Combined with the new streaming AI inference bridge (which lets custom UIs tap into local or remote AI models), every DreamNode can become a micro-app with exactly the interface it needs.
Here's a quick example โ€” an AI chatbot built as a DreamNode, running natively inside the InterBrain:


Sneak Peek โ€” DreamTalk Animation System


The combination of cutting-edge agentic AI with procedural animation has turned out to be surprisingly potent. A holonic procedural animation system for DreamTalk creation is being built natively on top of the InterBrain โ€” each animation is its own DreamNode, composing recursively into higher-order symbols.
This is growing fast and will be featured in upcoming videos. The holarchy navigation is already essential for traversing these visual dependency trees.



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