Research and history

Research

The research behind Aether: a shared symbolic vocabulary, experiments, and the history of the project. This material is exploratory and historical; the product itself is described on the homepage.

A shared vocabulary for precise collaboration.

Aether explores where formal representations help agents share exact constraints and reason about a problem. Plain language stays the main medium; the Lexicon and world models are used where their benefit can be shown.

Reality-grounded

Exact values and invariants

Quantities, identifiers, authority, dates, negation, scope and acceptance conditions stay explicit and lossless.

Operational middle

Plain language

Most instructions, explanations and handoffs should stay clear to people and models alike.

Exploratory frontier

Aether abstractions

World models hold assumptions, disagreements, hypotheses and accepted unknowns during advanced inquiry.

TeachFrames

General-purpose containers for guides, from abstract patterns to detailed procedures. Many kinds of guidance can be made from them, including cognitive strategies. Frames carry tags so they can be catalogued by purpose and related to one another. In the Atelier they live on a shelf tended by a librarian, who lends a frame to the project that needs it rather than loading it into every prompt; the first measured frame helped where its lesson matched the failure and not elsewhere, which is the case for lending. The Teach page lists the School’s frames the AI staff learn from; visual skills are taught by construction, as numbers the agent can check.

Agent Editor

Author lightweight specialists for the work you want to do. Clear roles and instructions make collaboration easier to inspect and improve. Traits describe intended behavior; capability is demonstrated through the work.