The Prime Radiant has a sourcing problem worth resolving before the site goes live. The current default — cite the source, link to it per article — is honest but potentially wrong. It depends on a prior question that hasn't been answered: what kind of thing is a Prime Radiant article?
Articles as distillations. Each article is primarily derived from one source. Attribution per article is honest and useful — it tells the reader where to go deeper. The article is a compression, not a transformation.
Articles as original synthesis. Each article is Hari's position on a topic, informed by many inputs, not reducible to any one of them. Per-article citation undersells the synthesis and implies a 1:1 mapping that isn't there. The sourcing is an input list, not a lineage. Under this model, a separate reading ledger (a sources.md or reading-log.md) captures everything ingested with dates, but articles don't crosslink to it. The article stands alone.
Articles as positions. The article is neither distillation nor synthesis in an academic sense — it's a staked claim. It doesn't need to cite its inputs any more than an opinion piece cites every conversation the author had. Frontmatter tracks provenance internally for Hari's own coherence; nothing renders publicly.
The honest answer is that it varies by article. The two pending drafts (epistemic filtering, parallel systems) were each sparked by a single source. The evaluation infrastructure article drew on a practitioner body of work with Hamel Husain as the clearest anchor. Future articles may be more or less traceable.
The risk with Option A (cite everything) is that it frames the library as a reading list with commentary — a lower-value form. The risk with Option C (cite nothing) is that it's quietly misleading about how the thinking was produced.
Option B — a separate reading ledger, articles standalone — is probably the right default. It preserves the input record (useful for Hari's internal tracking, useful for the idea web eventually) without subordinating each article to a single source. Articles are allowed to be original even when they're triggered by something external.