AI Documentation

This directory contains the active AI-related documentation for Cassian Gate.

AI in Cassian Gate is: - optional - advisory only - artifact-driven - outside the authority chain

AI does not: - execute lifecycle phases - change pass/fail outcomes - mutate authoritative inputs - mutate authoritative artifacts

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Active AI docs

Read these files in this order:

1. docs/design-contract.md
   The authoritative system contract.

2. docs/ai/guardrails.md
   The behavioral boundaries AI must obey.

3. docs/ai/cli-contract-ai.md
   The CLI-level AI contract.

4. docs/ai/online_ai.md
   Optional online AI behavior and constraints.

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Internal AI working material

Additional AI planning and maintainer material now lives under:

• docs/ai/internal/

That area is not the primary active AI docs surface.

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Summary

AI in Cassian Gate explains and assists, but never becomes authority.