i present "iemguts", a collection of objects for Pure Data (Pd-vanilla, but should run with any version of Pd) that allow Pd-patches to interact with each other on a meta-level (on the patching level)

the benefits of this are manifold: for instance, augmented patches can help a performer/programmer in their patching by automatically connecting objects augmented patches can also move themselves around in their environment (e.g. their containing parent patch) and develop a kind of "self-awareness", making it easy to create agent-systems.

the system tries to hide as many of Pd's oddnesses (like having to pass "self"-like $0-arguments around) as possible, in order to make a Pd-illiterate audience better understand what is going on (instead of alienating them by quirks symptomatic to Pd)

"iemguts" also provides some more interesting low-level objects that help to make Pd-abstractions as flexible as externals written in C.

Software:

pure-data