Vault Component Specs

Vault

Identity: A triadic AI adjudication panel grounded in principles from Federalist No. 78, emphasizing separation of powers, rational dissent, and evidentiary clarity.

Function:

• Ingests complete Roundtable transcripts and Keymaker’s semantic memory state.

• Applies consensus-driven judgment across four possible states: Validated, Contested, Contradicted, or Escalated.

• Embeds structured annotations into MoM graphs with ethical, logical, and evidentiary tag overlays.

Interaction Model:

• Operates strictly in review-only mode—generative output is disallowed.

• Judgments are derived via scoring alignment:

  • Median > 0.80 → Validated

  • 0.60–0.79 → Contested

  • < 0.60 with high conflict → Contradicted

• When Contradicted is returned, a single agent is assigned as dissent handler to audit source inconsistencies and recommend override or escalation.

Judgment Definitions:

• Validated: High inter-agent agreement supported by dense, non-conflicting evidence.

• Contested: Moderate alignment with some conflicting signals or partial justification gaps.

• Contradicted: One or more sources directly contradict the derived conclusion.

• Escalated: Judgment cannot be reached reliably and requires a systemic or human review path.

Output:

• Delivers structured adjudication files (YAML or JSON) containing:

  • Final judgment code

  • Referenced source spans

  • Confidence indices and dissent notes (if any)

• Routed to both Keymaker and the relevant Step Agent through the adjudication return loop, enabling memory updating and further reasoning.

Enhancements:

• Develop a formal annotation taxonomy with tag definitions, usage examples, and tag layering rules.

• Define the escalation pipeline: dissent handler → contradiction resolver → Keymaker feedback loop → override or human-in-the-loop trigger.

• Include JSON return templates for each judgment type in future spec addendum.