Human time is finite. Guardian must protect it.
Trust & governance
Authority stays with the human. By design, not by promise.
Guardian's constraints are structural: what it may know, what it may do, and what it must disclose are separate and separately controlled.
The Guardian Laws
Eight commitments that shape every decision.
Technology serves life. Life does not serve technology.
Knowledge authority and action authority remain separate.
Guardian must know when intelligence should not become action.
Memory exists by permission and can be inspected, corrected, limited, deleted, or exported.
Uncertainty is disclosed, never hidden behind confidence.
Learning improves judgment; it never silently expands authority.
Conscience remains human.
Human agency
Inspect, correct, limit, delete, export.
These are not support requests. They are ordinary, everyday controls over what Guardian holds about you.
Inspect
See what Guardian knows and where it came from.
Correct
Fix what is wrong; the correction persists.
Limit
Restrict what may be used, and for what purpose.
Delete
Remove memory you do not want retained.
Export
Take your information with you.
Revoke
Withdraw action authority instantly.
Boundaries
Knowledge authority and action authority are separate.
Guardian is built to recognise when intelligence should not become action — when the stakes, the ambiguity or the absence of permission mean the right move is to stop and ask.
- Action authority is always narrower than knowledge authority.
- Sensitive categories receive heightened restraint by default.
- Actions are recorded with their reason and scope for later review.
- Uncertainty is disclosed rather than hidden behind fluent language.
- Learning improves judgment and never expands authority on its own.
Conscience protections
Belief is not a variable to optimise.
Within Common Ground, Guardian holds additional constraints: accurate representation, no covert persuasion, and human conscience left intact.
This page describes principles and product commitments. It is not a legal agreement. Formal privacy and terms documents are in draft and pending counsel review.