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Feynman

Show your work — every step, every assumption, every dependency.

Named afterRichard Feynman (1918 — 1988) — physicist who insisted that you don't understand a thing until you can explain it simply.

01 — The science

Why we named it Feynman.

Feynman's core method was radical simplification — if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it. The Feynman agent applies this to AI operations: every decision must be traceable to a reason a human can audit.

Not a black box with good outcomes. A glass box with accountable steps. "What I cannot create, I do not understand" means: if the agent can't reconstruct its own reasoning on demand, it doesn't run.

Feynman agents ship with full trace by default. Every conclusion has a path you can defend in a regulatory review — not because we instrumented it after the fact, but because the trace is the contract.

Feynman class
What I cannot create, I do not understand.— Richard Feynman, last blackboard, 1988
02 — Agents in this class

Three prototypes.

Every class ships with reference agents, calibrated to operational use cases. Fork them, deploy them, or use them as a template for your own.

Live
TAH

Regulatory Decision Tracer

last run12m ago
cost / run$0.42
confidence99.1%
Staging
TSD

Audit Trail Synthesiser

last run2h ago
cost / run$0.31
confidence97.4%
Draft
MW

Exception Memo Writer

last run
cost / run$0.18
confidence
03 — Qualification gate

The ALOFT pipeline, applied.

Every agent in this class passes the same five-stage gate. Below: the eval criteria specific to Feynman agents at each stage.

STAGE
01 · Curation
02 · Staging
03 · Deployment
04 · Operation
05 · Generalisation
A→L→O→F→T
01
Curation
  • Use case requires audit trail
  • Risk tier ≥ tier-2
  • Domain expert sign-off
02
Staging
  • Full trace coverage > 95%
  • Human handoff tested
  • Audit log schema validated
03
Deployment
  • Registry entry signed
  • Rollback contract attached
  • Scope grant ≤ tier-2
04
Operation
  • Trace gaps < 0.5%
  • Handoff latency < 800ms
  • Schema drift = 0
05
Generalisation
  • Trace pattern reused × 3
  • New domain qualified
  • Coaching memo published

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