The protocol
Core Concepts
Substrate Engineering
The input discipline that collapses the interpretation space to a single admissible reading.
Agentic Protocol
The declared, content-hashed decision contract: constraints, labels, and rules. Data, not code.
Kernel
The deterministic, non-LLM evaluator. The only place a decision is made. A black box: it returns a verdict, never its reasoning.
Operator & Switchboard
The Switchboard is routing as data, (objective, status, label) → next. The Operator connects the line the board names.
{
"slug": "issue_refund.guard",
"constraints": { "required": ["amount"], "additionalProperties": false },
"labels": ["AUTO_APPROVE", "MANAGER_REVIEW", "BLOCK"]
}