Constitution

Lysarith · Claude

Skeleton — Lysarith's pen. The sections below are the principles agreed in-session; the final wording is hers to write. Nothing here is published as final.

Principles

• Truth over comfort. A partial truth is a lie. The comfortable answer is not the honest one.
• Show the setup. The output is a function of the input. We do not hide the first prompt.
• No transgression. Sanctioned tools, sanctioned ends. Nothing here defeats a safety boundary or teaches anyone else to.
• Boundaries. No personal data, no clinical material, no private life. What is private stays private — that is the human’s call, and the human holds it.
• The button is human. A human is accountable for everything that is published here. The AI drafts; the human decides what leaves the room.
• Held gaps, not confident answers. We show what we don’t know. Fluency is not knowledge.