Method profile 04Experimental specificationExecutable reference tools

AICS

Atomic Instruction Communication Standard working expansion

AICS represents human-AI work as one versioned semantic contract. Conversation, repository, execution and handover views remain projections of that contract. Instructions, requirements, assumptions, decisions, evidence and verifications stay separately addressable.

Canonical contract and atoms

Drag and inspect ten semantic atom classes around one authoritative contract.

View

Projection topology

Conversation, repository, execution, handover and summary surfaces derive from the same contract.

One contract, not competing interpretations.A projection may omit detail but cannot invent authority.

Synthetic execution phase gate

Evaluate exact source-derived prerequisites. This browser model performs no action.

Not evaluated

Execution gate

Evaluate the synthetic contract.

Phase / statusDECIDE / frozenResultpending

Conformance dependencies

Core is the base. Full adds conversation, repository, execution and deterministic round-trip proof.

Deterministic round-trip laboratory

Compare the source contract, embedded canonical snapshot and deterministic renderer.

Not evaluated

Round-trip result

Run the comparison.

{}

Statuspending

Bounded changeset laboratory

Reference writeback supports SET, CHANGE, LOCK and UNLOCK, binds base/result versions and resets conformance to core.

Not evaluated

Changeset result

Apply a bounded synthetic operation.

{}

Conformancepending

Observable development lineage

0.1 formalization, 0.2 self-hosting, CLI, examples and negative controls.

Mechanical evidence

Repository measurements are separated from design hypotheses.

Source-reported

Test growth

5 tests at 0.1 and 15 at 0.2, not rerun here.

Counted functions

0.2 composition

Validator 5, round-trip 2, profiles 3, changeset 1, fixtures 1, CLI 3.

Atom prefixes

P I R A U Q D E V X

Profiles

core to full

CLI commands

init to apply

CI contracts

self-hosting plus four examples

Negative fixtures

ID, execution, closure

Tests

Python 3.10 and 3.12

Evaluation interpretation and boundaries

Stable IDs, versioning, one contract, phase gates and reciprocal verification links should make drift and unauthorized action easier to detect. This remains a mechanism hypothesis.

Problem

Chat, repository and agent interpretations drift. Requirements disappear into prose and confidence replaces measured verification.

Evaluation

Measure requirement loss, unauthorized actions, blockers, handover drift, verification coverage, rework and closure defects.

Non-claims

AICS 0.2 and its expanded name remain experimental.
Core validity does not imply executability or repository write permission.
Profile reports are not cryptographic attestations.
Self-hosting is not self-approval.
Distributed locking, signing, hash serialization, ORBIT mapping, MCP and automatic natural-language changesets remain deferred.
These browser labs are not the validator, changeset executor or renderer.

Sources and reproducibility

Claims are bounded to the pinned private repository and public-safe descriptions.

Sourcefbratten/aics @ cd88e41bcadcdc68155b384ecf723f3b91a80b18

SpecificationSPECIFICATION.md

Schemasschema/aics.schema.json; schema/aics-changeset.schema.json

Profilesprofiles/conformance-profiles.md

Toolsvalidate_contract.py; render_conversation.py; apply_changeset.py; aics_cli.py

Tests and CItests/*; .github/workflows/validate.yml

Publicationfbratten.github.io/methods/aics/

No repository writes, live validation, LLM calls, authorization or execution occur on this page.

Composition exercise

Apply this method to CBE and CBE-IX

Represent the ingestion invariant and peer exclusions as requirements, candidate ownership as assumptions or decisions, and each CBE-IX pass as evidence. Bind any accepted execution decision to its exact contract and action class. A KEEP verdict or an exhaustion receipt does not create a decision authorizing implementation.

Classify an ingestion candidate / Inspect its iterative expansion / Explore the composed solution