The ideas here come only from Joe Pine’s Aspects of Identity, Part One and Part Two: identity as every way you complete “I am…”, transformation as “I was X, now I am Y”, and seven aspects found by asking who, when, how, why, what, where and in what way.
It grows out of Becoming by born.builders. Maya, the example, is their fictional character. The agent’s architecture follows the Super-agent design published by the DeepSeek Harness team, a research prototype rather than an official DeepSeek product. The Engine room shows it running.