Project Telos operator room

Operator room

Five flagships, one readable state.

MATCH / 5 of 5 ready

The room view summarizes each tool's role, readiness, and next action. It is mirrored by the JSON action envelope for hosts, plugins, and IDE panels.
Tool	Role	State	Next action
gather	perception intake	MATCH	index.map
crucible	verification pressure	MATCH	telos.reconcile
index	structure context	MATCH	gather.docs
forum	orchestration routing	MATCH	crucible.assess
telos	shared-room reconciliation	MATCH	flagship-workflow

Protocol surfaces

One contract, many hosts.

CLI JSON

Every flagship can expose parseable output for scripts, TUIs, IDE tasks, and shell-first workflows.

MCP stdio

All five flagships expose native tools over JSON-RPC for agent hosts and desktop clients.

App bridge

Telos room, catalog, and workflow envelopes are ready for Codex, Claude, OpenAI agents, plugins, and full applications.

Telos Studio effects

A visual instrument for model and operator.

The demo now exposes the creative rendering vocabulary as live, inspectable layers. The canvas is decorative only when the receipt says so: mode, seed, active layers, fallback, and reduced-motion state are always available as text.

Effect bank

Composable visual layers

Presets

Intensity Density

Retro CGIWireframes, horizon grids, shaded primitives, and measurement-friendly depth.
GlitchScanline offsets, channel splits, and deliberate corruption with readable state.
GenerativeSeeded particle fields and graph traces for repeatable variation.
PlotterPen-plotter paths, hatch lines, and vector-like trace discipline.
Pixel sortLuminance-ranked row fragments that expose algorithmic image transforms.
PosterTypographic blocks and print-system composition for flagship presentation.
FractalBranching recursion and orbital geometry for sensitivity-map demos.
Gaussian splatTransparent ellipses that stand in for web-native splat fields.
Clustered lightsForward-style screen clusters showing light bins and overlay visibility.
CRT scanlinesDisplay-era texture for retro terminals and low-fi monitor studies.
Chromatic splitChannel offsets for signal stress, poster energy, and glitch transitions.
DitherOrdered threshold texture for low-bit export and print constraints.
Contour mapIso-line fields for scientific overlays and scalar measurements.
Voronoi cellsNearest-seed partitions for segmentation and route-field sketches.
ASCII rasterGlyph-based raster previews for TUI and receipt-friendly surfaces.
Vector fieldDirectional flow arrows for sensitivity maps and simulation overlays.
Feedback trailsFrame-history echoes for loop memory and temporal debugging.
Halftone pressDot-gain texture, screen tone, and poster-print tactility without hiding the receipt.
Editorial gridCrop marks, modular columns, hierarchy rails, and critique-friendly spacing checks.

Scene receipt Scene receipt: mode=All layers; seed=5505; renderer=canvas2d-receipt-renderer; fallback_chain=canvas2d-receipt-renderer>static-artifact-receipt; status=MATCH; fallback=canvas+text

Renderer path

Capability contract: WebGPU splat and clustered prototype, then WebGL2 preview, Canvas 2D receipt renderer, and static artifact receipt fallback.

node demo/rendering-capabilities.mjs --summary Protocol envelope

{"protocol":"project-telos.scene-spec/v1","status":"MATCH"}

Creative engine

The whole engine, not only the surface.

Telos now treats visual effects, sound, typography, math, node graphs, and verification as one creation system. The live Studio is the front panel; the engine map below is the contract for reviving old organs and plugging them into CLI, MCP, IDE, TUI, and application hosts.

Raster and print

Dither, pixel sorting, halftone, CRT, chromatic split, poster grids, glitch, and export-ready media passes.

Sound and media

Render-sound, DFT, Web Audio strands, sonification, and audio-reactive visual layers with artifact receipts.

Math and physics

N-dimensional geometry, flow fields, harmonographs, particle fields, clustered light bins, Gaussian splat fields, and measurable overlays for mathematicians, physicists, and educators.

Typography lab

Kilon display type and Conso utility text set the specimen system for future glyph generation and poster design.

Node graph

TouchDesigner-compatible recipes can compose effects, sensors, measurement overlays, and media generators as reusable nodes instead of one-off canvas code.

Receipts

node demo/creative-engine.mjs returns the full manifest for replay, audit, and MCP hosts.

Flagship poster wall

Five tools, one sharper presentation system.

The poster wall uses the same Kilon display face and Conso utility typography as the demo, with stronger hierarchy, restrained metadata, and series-level variation so the tools read as one family without becoming one-note.

intake / sources

gather

Perception, capture, and lawful source receipts before the model speaks.

pressure / verdicts

crucible

Negative tests, refusal paths, and evidence that can survive scrutiny.

map / structure

index

Workspace shape, dependency context, and reusable code intelligence.

route / voice

forum

Agent routing, humanization, critique, and conversation-state discipline.

room / reconcile

telos

Receipts, shared state, replayable scenes, and final operator confidence.

Certificate loop

The verifier has to be able to refuse.

The proof renders a four-dimensional cube, perceives it two ways, checks the recovered invariant against a criterion the model did not author, then shows both a certified pass and an honest `UNVERIFIABLE`.

Node 20 or newer
node demo/run.mjs

Room view
node demo/room.mjs

Golden workflow
node demo/flagship-workflow.mjs

01Perceive

Read an artifact from witnessed bytes, not from memory.

02Recover

Extract the invariant that can actually be checked.

03Check

Compare against a criterion outside the model.

04Refuse

Return `UNVERIFIABLE` when the evidence cannot support a pass.