Method · seven rules

Evidence before action.

Each rule states what the system must do and the concrete consequence when the condition is not met.

  1. 01

    Evidence first.

    If it isn’t in the source, it doesn’t get written. Every claim, number and recommendation points back to a source. Gaps are labelled as gaps, never filled with a plausible guess.

  2. 02

    A human decides.

    Agents detect and propose. They don’t publish. Publishing, changing a live site, spending money or sending a message is a human act, every single time.

  3. 03

    Fail closed.

    When in doubt, the system stops instead of guessing. A missing file, an unknown state or an unverified claim is a stop with a reason, not a warning that scrolls by.

  4. 04

    Deterministic where possible, LLM where needed.

    A model never does what a script does better. Parsing, counting, comparing and formatting are code. The model gets the steps that genuinely need judgment, and nothing else.

  5. 05

    Privacy by design.

    Collect less. Protect what remains. Keys stay in the keychain, memories stay on disk, and personal data is redacted before anything is indexed.

  6. 06

    Write down the traps.

    Every mistake paid for becomes a rule for the next agent. The same trap is never paid for twice: it goes into the instructions the next agent reads first.

  7. 07

    Every output is inspectable.

    Versioned, reviewable, verifiable. Reports, plans and digests are files you can diff and review. If you can’t inspect it, you can’t approve it.