TEKWITCH
Keep the authority. Replace the machinery.
Wayhand is a proposed AI-enabled computing system whose purposes and consequential actions remain accountable to a real human—even when the model, operating system, provider, or machine changes.
AI NATIVE · WORK IN PROGRESS · AUTHORITY · RECOVERY · PROOF
THE PROBLEM
Imagine a long project that depends on an AI assistant.
It can find your notes, help organize decisions, and use connected tools to change files or send messages. Then you change providers—or a service changes underneath you.
You may have your conversations, but can you reconstruct the working setup: the history it needs, the tools it can use, the permissions you've given, and the limits you've set?
And there's a second problem: having a tool that can act does not mean an AI should be able to decide when to use it.
THE PREMISE
A computer can become more capable without taking its person's decisions away.
FIGURE 1 · THE WHITEPAPER
Human decisions, protected memory, model proposals and external action follow separate paths. The paper explains the proposed safeguards.
Models propose actions but do not authorize them. The human is the Authority. The institutional core records purpose and permission; human assurance and protected memory have separate boundaries. The independent action checker validates an exact consequential request, the deny-only Hold Guard can block it, and a bounded capability reaches the runner. A local memory release is distinct from permission for external export.
READ THE PAPER
The full argument.
PUBLICATION CANDIDATE 0.3.12
Read the proposed design, threats, comparison with existing work, and requirements for proof.
PROJECT ROADMAP · R-00 TO R-14
A working Wayhand is still ahead. The roadmap shows the steps between here and there.
The groundwork is done. Now Wayhand has to prove it can work.
We have the design and a prepared development computer. The current step, R-02, is about making the boundaries between human decisions, memory, and actions hold up on a real machine.
After that comes giving Wayhand carefully controlled things to do, building its independence, and eventually making a Seed that another person can use. Those milestones are still ahead.
Completed groundwork Current work Still ahead
SUPPORT WAYHAND
Specific resources make specific work possible.
Each ask identifies something useful, how it helps, and where to offer it.
FEEDBACK / INTRODUCTIONS
THE ASK Share a checkable contradiction, relevant research, or a contact who could supply a resource.
HOW IT HELPS Reduces wasted development and connects the project to practical support.
Can you provide it?
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
THE ASK Propose a defined financial sponsorship for equipment, storage, tool usage, or specific testing costs.
HOW IT HELPS Funds an agreed development need with its scope and terms discussed directly.
Can you provide it?
EQUIPMENT ACCESS
THE ASK Offer a loan, evaluation unit, used host, or sponsorship toward a 192 GB-class system.
HOW IT HELPS Enables larger local model benchmarks and the eventual high-memory host transfer.
Can you provide it?
STORAGE AND RECOVERY
THE ASK Offer a 4 TB system NVMe, 8 TB archive NVMe, or appropriate recovery media.
HOW IT HELPS Supports local project archives, recovery work and future host capacity.
Can you provide it?
COMPUTE / TOOL CREDITS
THE ASK Offer bounded compute time, applicable development-tool credits, or eligible Work usage capacity.
HOW IT HELPS Permits more evaluation and engineering without immediately buying hardware or exhausting available usage.
Can you provide it?
FUTURE SEED TESTERS
THE ASK Volunteer later for ordinary-stranger installation, recovery and reconstruction trials.
HOW IT HELPS Provides independent evidence that people unfamiliar with Wayhand can actually use its final Seed.
Can you provide it?
TEKWITCH LIVE
THE ASK Follow the workshop, spend time with the community, and bring your curiosity.
HOW IT HELPS Builds the audience around the work and helps future collaborators and supporters find it.
Want to join in?
