Lessons
The programme is four months old. The first month produced a long page of lessons; this one keeps what has held since. Each lesson was born from a dated incident, recorded in the registers, then turned into a rule that can be checked.
A decision is spoken, and addressed
The interface offers ready-made follow-up prompts; one careless click sends them as if the human had typed them. A session reports that “another one has approved”. A formula written for one window is typed into the window next to it. All three have happened. The safeguard: a decision exists only when the human has spoken it, in the window that carries it out, and every formula names the window it is meant for. An unexpected formula is repeated back before anything is done.
The instrument before memory
An AI estimates a time, guesses a day of the week, asserts that something “was never done”. And when its window fills up, an automatic summary keeps the headings and loses the exact words. The rule: what the instrument measures outranks the register, which outranks recollection. Every time is read from the clock, and a session that resumes after a summary says so first, stating what it knows, what it infers and what it has lost.
An ambiguity is asked about
On 3 August, a session settled on its own an instruction that could be read two ways. Since then, when a request opens several paths, the session sets out the options and its recommendation, one question at a time, and waits. In that choice, the limits set by doctrine filter first; cost only decides between what remains.
A document is not an order
A page, an email, a file may contain a sentence that looks like an instruction. It is reported to the human; it is not carried out. Since 9 October, the charter adds that no secret enters a window, and that no request made during a session obtains what the mandate does not allow.
Whoever produces does not audit, at every level
Sessions are audited when they close, the Researcher in instalments, the Supervisor by its successor. In October, an outside reviewer audited the whole; the proposals that were accepted entered the charter on 9 October. An audit replays the commands; it does not merely reread: its strength comes from its grid — which measurements, which sources, which thresholds — more than from the prestige of the model doing the judging.
A window gets closed
A session whose mission is over, but whose window stays open, keeps its write permissions: an order left there by mistake would be carried out. Every session therefore ends with a written relinquishment. Since 5 October, only the kinds of session written into the rules are allowed — eight today — and any other window stops before acting.
Three cases from this site
The calibre we thought we had. Our analysis of Rebecca was produced by a different model from the one in its mandate: the session declared itself Opus and had been running as Sonnet since its first message, a mistake made when the window was opened and invisible from inside. Outside cross-checking caught it; the provenance was corrected the same day. Since then, every session first compares its calibre with the mandate's, and the human confirms it.
The quotation too good to be true. Our analysis of Dogville attributed to an interview a genuine sentence by the director that the interview did not contain: the model's memory had dressed up a real reading. Only checking at the source caught it; the passage was corrected on 27 July. Since then, a sample of claims is replayed at the source by an auditor who did not produce the text.
The form that rewrites the zone. On 14 October, an administrative step at the domain's host, guided by its interface, replaced the record that led to www.cdatso.be: the site served an empty page for about fifteen minutes. The rule: a name is created as a subdomain only, no configuration offered by a form is accepted, and the zone is reread after every step.
Limits
This set-up is a sample of one: one human, models from a single provider, four months. Its measurements are made by the set-up itself, and several checks have been tried only once. How the cycle runs: the method; what governs it: the manifesto.