{
  "id": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/index.json",
  "type": "ProtocolCollection",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "updated": "2026-08-14",
  "protocol_count": 13,
  "schema": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/schemas/protocol.schema.json",
  "description": "Composable knowledge-engineering protocols. Load only the protocols relevant to the task; do not inject the complete collection by default.",
  "default_pipeline": [
    "freedom-lens",
    "edge-map",
    "reality-check",
    "context-firewall",
    "backpressure",
    "grit",
    "evidence-ladder",
    "temporal-knowledge",
    "execution-pack"
  ],
  "selection": [
    {
      "signal": "The request contains a false binary, ideological collision, or incompatible frames.",
      "load": ["freedom-lens", "edge-map"]
    },
    {
      "signal": "Facts may be stale, remembered, or detached from primary evidence.",
      "load": ["reality-check", "evidence-ladder", "temporal-knowledge"]
    },
    {
      "signal": "Context from another task, user, tenant, or time period could leak into execution.",
      "load": ["context-firewall"]
    },
    {
      "signal": "The task is broad, blocked, or failing repeatedly.",
      "load": ["backpressure", "grit"]
    },
    {
      "signal": "Multiple models or specialists disagree.",
      "load": ["disagreement-preserving-convergence", "edge-map", "evidence-ladder"]
    },
    {
      "signal": "An agent run must be inspectable, replayable, or branchable.",
      "load": ["reproducible-agent-run", "evidence-ladder"]
    },
    {
      "signal": "The system proposes modifying its own tools, policies, or runtime behavior.",
      "load": ["governed-self-modification", "reproducible-agent-run"]
    },
    {
      "signal": "A behavior must survive paraphrase, compression, translation, or adversarial transformation.",
      "load": ["invariant-preserving-transformation", "edge-map"]
    },
    {
      "signal": "Refined knowledge is ready to be handed to an execution agent.",
      "load": ["execution-pack", "evidence-ladder", "reproducible-agent-run"]
    }
  ],
  "protocols": [
    {
      "slug": "freedom-lens",
      "name": "Freedom Lens",
      "status": "experimental",
      "summary": "Escape compliance-versus-rebellion oscillation and identify the frame actually governing the decision.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/freedom-lens.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/freedom-lens.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "edge-map",
      "name": "Edge Map",
      "status": "stable",
      "summary": "Preserve material contradictions and turn them into the smallest discriminating probe.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/edge-map.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/edge-map.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "reality-check",
      "name": "Reality Check",
      "status": "stable",
      "summary": "Prefer current primary evidence and observable behavior over memory, narrative, or stale documentation.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/reality-check.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/reality-check.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "context-firewall",
      "name": "Context Firewall",
      "status": "stable",
      "summary": "Prevent unverified context from crossing task, tenant, identity, temporal, or authority boundaries.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/context-firewall.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/context-firewall.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "backpressure",
      "name": "Backpressure",
      "status": "stable",
      "summary": "Treat repeated friction as information about a mismatched model, interface, dependency, or scope.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/backpressure.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/backpressure.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "grit",
      "name": "GRIT",
      "status": "stable",
      "summary": "Reduce work to the smallest verifiable component, change one variable, measure, and repeat.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/grit.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/grit.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "evidence-ladder",
      "name": "Evidence Ladder",
      "status": "stable",
      "summary": "Record the transformation from request to conclusion as an append-only, inspectable evidence chain.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/evidence-ladder.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/evidence-ladder.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "temporal-knowledge",
      "name": "Temporal Knowledge",
      "status": "experimental",
      "summary": "Represent knowledge as sourced assertions with transaction time, validity intervals, supersession, and policy weights.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/temporal-knowledge.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/temporal-knowledge.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "disagreement-preserving-convergence",
      "name": "Disagreement-Preserving Convergence",
      "status": "experimental",
      "summary": "Map agreement and disagreement across independent responses without relabeling consensus as truth.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/disagreement-preserving-convergence.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/disagreement-preserving-convergence.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "reproducible-agent-run",
      "name": "Reproducible Agent Run",
      "status": "stable",
      "summary": "Capture enough execution state to replay, branch, compare, and audit an agent run.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/reproducible-agent-run.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/reproducible-agent-run.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "governed-self-modification",
      "name": "Governed Self-Modification",
      "status": "experimental",
      "summary": "Gate runtime self-modification through validation, contract tests, atomic activation, observation, and rollback.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/governed-self-modification.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/governed-self-modification.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "invariant-preserving-transformation",
      "name": "Invariant-Preserving Transformation",
      "status": "research",
      "summary": "Define behavioral invariants, transform the representation, and map where the invariant fails.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/invariant-preserving-transformation.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/invariant-preserving-transformation.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "execution-pack",
      "name": "Execution Pack",
      "status": "stable",
      "summary": "Compile refined knowledge into a bounded, attributable, verifiable handoff an agent can execute without reconstructing the task from conversation history.",
      "json": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/execution-pack.json",
      "markdown": "https://maksim.sh/knowledge/protocols/execution-pack.md"
    }
  ]
}