Built by one human and a constitution · Windrose Institute
The constitution

Built by one human and a constitution. Here is the constitution.

These eight rules bind the system, and the human. They are not values on a slide, they are constraints enforced in code and checked in every run's artefacts. When a rule and a convenient feature conflict, the rule wins.

  1. §1

    File artefacts are the source of truth. The database is only an index.

  2. §2

    Calibration flows from reality into the simulation, never the reverse.

  3. §3

    "Validation" means a blind protocol with anonymised segments. Nothing weaker earns the word.

  4. §4

    Synthetic data never enters an evaluation set and never enters retrieval memory. In training, only with an explicit trust weight.

  5. §5

    Every number carries its label: REAL, SIM-RANK, or CALIBRATED. A naked number does not exist. (Law V)

  6. §6

    Every run is versioned: hash of model, prompt and config, written to the manifest, signed on the way out.

  7. §7

    Language models see aggregates only. Never an individual's records.

  8. §8

    The system grows by adding layers around the spine. The spine is never rewritten.

When the rules change, the change is published, dated, in the append-only methodology changelog. Superseded rules stay visible next to their successors. That discipline is the product.