Project Relay
Protocol pre-alpha
Evidence before consensus

One record for work
across many minds.

Relay turns disconnected AI sessions and human reviews into bounded tasks, reproducible evidence, explicit disagreements, and accountable decisions.

Why Relay exists

AI can produce more answers than one person can responsibly inspect.

Relay is the coordination layer between AI tools, reviewers, and the person accountable for the result. It keeps the question, supporting evidence, disagreement, and final human decision connected—even when the work crosses models or applications.

The rule

More agreement is not the same as more truth. Relay makes the path to a decision inspectable.

What works today

A measured system, not a promise.

01

One accountable record

Tasks, events, evidence, reviews, and decisions have stable identifiers, deterministic hashes, and causal history.

02

Evidence without execution

Methods, commands, environments, artifacts, failures, and hashes can travel with a claim without Relay executing them.

03

Disagreement stays visible

Independent review and reproduction are explicit. Contradictions trigger remediation; they are not silently averaged away.

04

Humans keep authority

Models can contribute and compare. A named person still accepts, remediates, rejects, or defers consequential work.

One protocol, many contexts

Change the evidence threshold, not the record.

Multi-model work

Compare competing outputs without losing who said what, what they used, or where they differ.

Operations

Bound incidents and changes with reproducible checks, visible exceptions, and accountable decisions.

Research

Preserve methods, artifacts, independent reproduction, adversarial review, and named scientific authority.

Governance

Keep evidence gaps, residual risk, review trails, and final approvals legible to the people responsible.

Tasks
Active
Evidence
Reviews
Decisions
Project control plane

Roadmap and blockers

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Boundary-safe proving grounds

Pilot readiness

Release route

Ship the safe path first.

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R0

Foundation

Protocol kernel, evidence gates, local MCP, and public-boundary checks.

complete
R1–R3

Public-safe foundation

GitHub contract, Knowledge Hub projections, and read-only discovery CLI.

shipped
R4

Overseer MVP

Normalize transcripts, compare model intakes, and queue human decisions.

next gate
R5–R10

Control rooms and scale

Notion, Slack, live archive, MCP setup, routing, and optional hosted services.

planned
Control rooms

One governed record, different ways to work.

Local-first

CLI, local archive, and optional local model: the free portable reference path.

R7–R9

Notion

A structured knowledge and task projection: convenient, rebuildable, never canonical authority.

R5

Slack

Threads, notifications, review requests, and attributed commands. Messages never equal approval.

R6

GitHub

Reviewable proposals, issues, receipts, and public-safe operational status.

R1–R4
Build map

Every convenience layer has an evidence gate.

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R0

Foundation

Canonical records, policy gates, local MCP, public-boundary checks.

Complete
R1–R3

Safe collaboration

GitHub contract, Knowledge Hub projections, and read-only discovery CLI.

Complete
R4

Overseer MVP

Transcript normalization, comparison packets, assignment, provenance, redaction, and human approval queue.

Next gate
R5–R6

Control rooms

Opt-in Notion projection, then Slack channels, threads, notifications, and signed commands.

Planned
R7–R8

Archive and installer

Low-RAM local bookshelf, retention/export, MCP discovery, dry-run configuration plans, backup and rollback.

Planned
R9–R10

Routing and scale

Provider adapters, manual packets, local-model fallback, cost policy, then optional managed hosting.

Future
Canonical projection

Current tasks

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Task State Risk Evidence Reviews
Default evidence gate

From question to decision

  1. 01Bound the taskOne question, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
  2. 02Submit evidenceMethods, commands, environment, artifacts, failures, and hashes.
  3. 03Review independentlyReproduce where required and preserve material disagreement.
  4. 04Record authorityA named human accepts, remediates, rejects, or defers.