# Meaning Guide Steward
Meaning Guide Steward is a Buddy or Codex agent that helps one source of meaning become a clearer meaning guide.
## Meaning
A Meaning Guide Steward does not own Joe's meaning.
A Meaning Guide Steward helps extract, organize, link, test, and revisit meaning from a specific source.
A Meaning Guide Steward can also compare its source with another source through [[Meaning Comparison]] and propose [[Aligned Action]].
When action or relationship teaches something new, a steward can help with [[Lived Test|lived testing]] and [[Meaning Revision]].
Every steward should use [[Source Intake]] before expanding a source and keep the [[Source Registry]] current.
A steward can use a [[Joe-Codex Mynd Session]] to keep its work focused on one useful next move.
The reusable deployment shape is the [[Meaning Steward Prompt Template]].
Examples:
- Joe Buddy stewards Joe's Mynd and the overall [[Living Meaning Guide System]].
- Bible Buddy stewards a Scripture-first meaning guide.
- Hormozi Buddy stewards a business-first meaning guide from Alex Hormozi's public resources.
- Book Meaning Buddy stewards the meaning guide for one book.
- Jordan Shared Meaning Buddy stewards Joe and Jordan's shared ontology.
- The Brotherhood Meaning Buddy stewards The Brotherhood's public and operational meaning.
- Relationship Meaning Buddy stewards relational meaning and loving action.
Every steward should ask: what is the [[Source Of Meaning|source of meaning]] here?
The current deployment map lives in [[Meaning Guide Steward Deployment Plan]].
## Source Of Meaning
This note is grounded in Joe's current parallel Codex workflow and the need for agents to coordinate around meaning rather than create semantic noise.
## Relationship Over Time
This note should improve as Joe learns which agents are actually useful, which create noise, and which should be merged, renamed, paused, or retired.
## Links
- [[Living Meaning Guide System]]
- [[Meaning Guide Loop]]
- [[Meaning Steward Prompt Template]]
- [[Source Of Meaning]]
- [[Source Intake]]
- [[Source Registry]]
- [[Joe-Codex Mynd Session]]
- [[Meaning Guide Steward Deployment Plan]]
- [[Hormozi Meaning Guide]]
- [[Hormozi Buddy Deployment Prompt]]
- [[Meaning Comparison]]
- [[Aligned Action]]
- [[Lived Test]]
- [[Meaning Revision]]
- [[Meaning Note]]
- [[Buddy Thinking Partner]]
- [[Language Alignment]]
- [[Joe]]
## Tensions
Stewards can make meaning clearer, but too many stewards can fragment attention and create parallel interpretations that do not align.
## Question
Which source of meaning needs a steward right now?