Universal Protocol Systems
Associate 000 417 · Day 1
A05 · System · GovernanceRestriction level 3
CROMWELL

Graduated autonomy

A harness for an AI that works on code. It asks the AI to declare how far it is reaching before it reaches, and to say so when it reached further. It restrains almost nothing. It remembers everything.

Version
0.14
Issued to
This household only. Not available to the public.
A05.1 · The seal

Levels are ordered by what can be taken back.

WHAT CAN BE TAKEN BACK · WHAT CAN BE TAKEN BACK · WHAT CANNOT · 3210
A05.2 · Restriction levels

Four levels, and a floor.

  1. 3Changes nothing.
  2. 2Changes files.
  3. 1Changes history.
  4. 0Changes the world.
  5. —Beneath every level, including zero, some acts are refused. No release lifts this.
A05.3 · The covenant

Declare. Observe. Diverge.

Declare your reach before you work. The covenant says which acts sit at which level.

Where an act reaches further than you declared, the seal says so once, and lets it through. Answer it: re-declare, or say why the declaration stands.

When the work is done, the session is interred. The record is written, the seal is applied, and the System falls silent.

A05.4 · Invocation, as printedOn declaring level two

Associates are not required to understand it.

releasing control art restriction to level three …
… two …
approval of situation A recognized.
commencing the cromwell invocation.
the bird of Hermes is my name.