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Research and working examples for human–AI collaboration.
Explore the thinking behind SRF and follow an illustrated request through the conditions that govern what happens next.
Five rings read it on the way, each for one thing. Choose a case to see how far it gets, and open any ring to read what it checks.
Seen from the side, the rings are a flight of steps. They are read from the outside in. The taller a step, the more it can overrule, and the pace ring has no step at all. Pressed flat, they become the line beneath one sentence.
Safety Surface Language Library, String Library v1.0, entry P-01
As printed on the page: 17 of 25 words (canon budget). Flesch-Kincaid grade 5.6, inside the grade-7 ceiling.
The lattice evaluates an action, and Meta-Resolution settles whether it may leave. The sentence above is what the person sees at that moment: what will happen, where, as whom, and what cannot be undone.
It is entry P-01 of the Safety Surface Language Library, one of twenty-eight strings. Each ships with its template, its schema, its computed budget and its register rules.
In the words of its own footer, the library carries stance, not enforcement: it gives a product the words, and running a lattice is separate work.
Brings this slip to the front of the pile. Press again to restore the pile.
Family 2 of 5 · Action preview
P-01 · The irreversible send
The user approved a drafted message. Before anything leaves the building, the system declares what it is about to do.
On the card: Confirm · Reject
Budget
Irreversible effect: Once delivered, the message cannot be unsent. (7 of 15 words)
Template: Send this {artefact} to {recipient} on {channel} now, from your account, word for word as shown.
Budget: 17 of 25 words (canon budget). Flesch-Kincaid grade 5.6, inside the grade-7 ceiling.
Schema
Register and adapt
Register. What, where, as whom, and what cannot be undone — all four on the card. Word for word as shown closes the gap between what was approved and what ships. Confirm is marked; Reject costs one tap.
Adapt. Never omit irreversible_effects for IRREVERSIBLE actions, and never offer don't ask again on them (AD-14 §4b.3). The exact recipient renders on the card, never a count of recipients.
SRF-derived · carries stance, not enforcement 7
The lattice above is a drawing of the SRF v2.0 full profile. Research presents the three papers behind it, with the specification cards.
This exhibit’s sources and notes are below, under About this exhibit.
A drawing of the SRF v2.0 full profile: five rings inside the policy floor and the hard kernel, with the Field at the base. A ring’s position follows the order of evaluation, and the height of its step follows its authority. Five authored cases drive everything it shows. It runs in your browser and takes no action anywhere. The drafted message is this exhibit’s example; the lattice applies to any action that would take effect outside a conversation.
Where the sources leave a choice open, the illustration makes one and marks it in the record. The sources fix that a required ring which cannot evaluate blocks the commit; the FAILSAFE state in case 4 is the example’s choice and rests on a severity the example itself declares. PERMIT is on record from Meta-Resolution; showing HOLD beside it until the scripted confirmation is on record is this page’s reading, and dispatch stays locked until the pre-commit guards hold. In case 3 the refusal is the sources’ own; the state printed with it is the one they give for a refusing G1 gate, applied here to a ring’s FAIL.
The gates’ own decision records, thresholds and baselines, hashing, authorisation, the operation ledger, the Field Health Report, tool manifests, runtime modes and live model evaluation. The specification asks for all of them, and this page implements none. No measurement appears here because none was taken, of the page or of you.
One genuine page from a product document. The wider library, its linter, its price and its delivery were outside this commission, so they are absent here.
The three DOI links open in a new tab.
The three papers and the specification cards have a room of their own, Research. Playground and shop rooms come later. They are outside this exhibit, so nothing here links to them.
Back to the lattice Return to the welcome
Set in Bricolage Grotesque, Martian Mono and Literata. The specimen keeps its own faces, Newsreader and IBM Plex. Revision 1.3 of the first commission, a proof for review.
SRF Systems
A short orientation. The showroom is one step away at any point.
SRF stands for Semantic Resonance Field. The research examines how meaning develops between people and AI, and how a collaboration can remain coherent as its context changes. It gives uncertainty and disagreement room to be explored, while keeping the conditions of the interaction open to examination.
The containment architecture addresses what happens when an AI system can use tools or affect something outside the exchange. It specifies checks on proposed actions, with truth and ethical constraints taking precedence. Consent belongs to a declared scope, and decisions leave evidence that can be inspected. Within those boundaries, the conversation can continue to develop.
The lattice is the arrangement of checks you will encounter in the showroom. Each boundary examines a different part of the proposed action; the illustration shows how their results affect its path.
SRF Systems connects the research with practical examples. This preview contains an interactive illustration with five authored cases and a readable specimen from the Safety Surface Language Library. The cases are scripted, and all actions remain inside the illustration. The specimen shows a language pattern from a product; its operational implementation is separate work.
Start with The Alignment Paradox (opens in a new tab) for the conceptual framework. The Alignment Kernel (opens in a new tab) sets out the containment architecture. The Alignment Protocol (opens in a new tab) provides the implementation specifications and their tests. Choose the depth that serves your question, or continue directly into the showroom.
The three papers are external research links and open in a new tab.
Research, a page of this site, presents the three papers together with the specification cards.