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tegwick 5a8a5a2d2d Update SCOPE to actual repo state; add scope-vs-intent gap assessment; open SOUL-WP-0011 
- SCOPE.md now reflects Phases I-IX complete, paper draft with decided
  pathway, companion line, and metrics groundwork; current work surface
  and sharpened out-of-scope table
- history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md assesses state against
  INTENT's six determinations and success criterion; gap register G1-G7,
  ranking G1 (sufficiency/weighting), G2 (coverage matrix), G3 (Soul
  packaging) as most relevant addressable gaps
- SOUL-WP-0011 opened to address G1-G3 (three tasks)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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SCOPE

This file helps you quickly understand what this repository is about, when it is relevant, and when it is not. It is intentionally lightweight and may be incomplete.

Aspirational charter: INTENT.md · Research agenda: ResearchProgram.md · Conceptual draft: SoulFrameIntroduction.md · Scope-vs-intent gap assessment: history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md

One-liner

A systems-theoretic research program and conceptual framework for person-like informational beings (Body = Action, Mind = Model, Soul = Relation) — through its foundational phases and holding a research-grounded paper draft.

Core Idea

Soul Frame develops a small, coherent vocabulary for describing biological, artificial, fictionalized, and potentially non-human Beings as interacting informational systems — without requiring a solved theory of consciousness, and without silently equating descriptive personhood with moral or legal status.

Central question:

When does an informational system become someone that another someone can know?

What the repo actually holds (as of 2026-09-28)

Phases I–IX are complete (SOUL-WP-0001 … SOUL-WP-0010, all finished):

  • Concept set — 13 working definitions in concepts/ plus three criteria documents (concepts/criteria/), including itemized B1–B8 (autonomous individuality) and P1–P12 (descriptive personhood) profiles
  • Research instruments — Terminology.md, Claims.md (H1–H10, all supported/revised through phase review), OpenQuestions.md (RQ1–RQ8 with working answers; itemized OQ registers), ThoughtExperiments.md (TE-01–09+ with working judgments)
  • Literature base — sources/bibliography.md (SF-R### ledger), discipline-organized maps under research/ for all 13 workstreams touched so far, five phase syntheses plus research/research-synthesis.md
  • Paper — paper/draft.md: first research-grounded draft, adversarially reviewed (SOUL-WP-0009), publication pathway decided: internal circulation as paper-one for coulomb-research, then pre-print → journal
  • Companion line (moral/legal) — charter (research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md) plus first slice executed (legal personhood precedent survey); items 2–4 unstarted
  • Metrics groundwork — measurability scoping across all axes (research/metrics-scoping-note.md) and instrument scoping for B3 + psychological continuity; instrument build is founder-gated (open hub decision 0401cf28)

In Scope (current work surface)

  • Refining weighting/sufficiency questions for the B-, P-, and continuity profiles (RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 residuals; paper §17 item 2)
  • Exercising INTENT's success criterion: applying the full vocabulary across the nine reference entity types with meaningful distinctions
  • Resolving paper-critical packaging questions (e.g. Soul: relations vs consequences, RQ4 remainder)
  • Further companion-line slices (charter items 2–4) and law/governance deepening — under the charter's own gates
  • Instrument development for scoped metrics — only after decision 0401cf28 is resolved
  • Carrying the paper through the coulomb-research internal-circulation stage

Out of Scope

Concern Belongs elsewhere
Production agent runtime / harness agent-harness, activity-core, runtime repos
LLM provider routing and tooling llm-connect, related infra
Claiming to solve consciousness philosophy programs; not a gate here
Silent moral/legal personhood claims companion line only (charter-gated); no premature derivation
Shipping product features as primary deliverable downstream architecture repos after conceptual clarity
"Practical architecture for artificial beings" (INTENT det. 6b) downstream repos; conceptual clarity feeds it, this repo does not build it

Workplan prefix

SOUL-WP

Domain / hub

  • Domain: agents
  • Repo slug: soul-frame
  • Secondary: infotech (conceptual/platform adjacency)