Inspectable collaboration

Make trust something we can inspect.

Keep decisions, delegated actions and the knowledge behind them legible to the people responsible for the work.

AIDR and Turnfile make positions, disagreement and human decisions visible. GuideCheck and Skill Provenance help people inspect what an agent is being asked to use. Graceful Boundaries and Knowledge-as-Code make limits and structured knowledge easier to understand.

Together, these projects address the record around collaborative work: what was proposed, what was trusted, what limits applied, and who decided. They can be adopted separately and contributed to existing efforts.

The connections

How the parts fit together.

Record the decision

Preserve positions, objections and human resolution across a decision or a session.

Inspect delegated work

Review installation instructions and the identity and history of agent skills.

Make context understandable

Expose operational limits and structure the knowledge people and agents rely on.

These are complementary practices and artifacts. Adoption into a wider standard can be more valuable than maintaining a separate project.

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One decision

AIDR

One portable decision record for the question, positions, objections and human decision.

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Session coordination

Turnfile

Session-scale coordination with recorded positions, preserved disagreement and human resolution.

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Inspectable installation

GuideCheck

Human-reviewable installation instructions, designed to make delegated software installation inspectable. Conformance does not guarantee safety.

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Skill identity and history

Skill Provenance

Portable identity, integrity and version history that help make work with agent skills governable.

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Understandable limits

Graceful Boundaries

Discoverable limits, understandable refusals and useful next steps for humans and agents. An enabling standard for Siteline.

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Legible knowledge

Knowledge-as-Code

Open infrastructure for simple human and machine legibility of structured knowledge.

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Inspect a real decision record

AIDR's specification ratification preserves reviewers' positions, disclosures and Sam's arbitration.

Read the decision record

Reading the evidence

A decision trail doesn't prove better outcomes. Provenance doesn't establish that a skill is safe, and GuideCheck conformance doesn't eliminate prompt injection. The work makes evidence and authority easier to inspect.

Research & resources

Explore the ideas behind the work.

Browse all papers, briefs and available media

These are dated research and design documents. Read them alongside the current project descriptions.

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