Getting started
Overview
Plectis is a runnable public inspection surface for an AI-native workflow system. You run bounded components locally and read what they produced; every component declares the evidence behind it and a scope limit showing where its evidence stops.
What it is
Plectis is the public executable cross-section of a larger AI-native workflow and research runtime: 88 bounded components across formal proof, agent reliability and safety, research and forecasting, projection-drift control, validators, work landing, and continuity. The rest stays private because parts of it are live and handle private data.
The evidence records, local result records, and source links are the accountability layer: they show what each mechanism ran or replayed, what evidence class supports it, and where its authority stops. It is not a hosted service and makes no external model calls.
Plectis is one of two public demonstrations of that system. The other is a standalone Lean repository built around two open Erdős problems, and 13 papers explain the pair as PDFs.
What you can do here
- Run one mechanism route by cloning the repository and running the first component against a folder.
- Read the result record in the local
.microcosm/state, then open the mechanism card it points to. - Check the evidence line: evidence kind, independence rank, real-tool marker, and the scope limit.
- Open the mechanism atlas after the first loop is concrete.
- Browse the seven areas, the runtime mechanisms grouped by what they do.
- Open the source, and follow any page back to the files behind it.
The seven areas
There are 88 components in total. That's a lot to meet at once, so they're grouped into seven areas; the one that matches why you came is the way in:
- Entry & orientation. How a newcomer first meets Plectis and follows a short guided path through it.
- Architecture & navigation. The core primitives, pattern rules, and routing that give the system its shape.
- Formal math & proof. Inspectable pieces of a proof pipeline: premise retrieval over a copied Lean Std index, tactic routing, verifier-trace repair, and claim-separation result records. Three components run the real Lean/Lake prover locally on bounded examples; the rest publish the pipeline's checking layers as contracts you can open.
- Agent reliability & safety. Source-open replays of agent failure modes as inspectable specimens.
- Research & science. Replays that stand in for scientific and forecasting workflows, run over synthetic fixtures.
- Import & drift control. The boundary that brings non-secret material into the public tree and flags drift.
- Work & continuity. How reversible work is recorded, landing decisions are made, and runs resume.