LawsOf Robots

The System

Extensibility

Extensibility is the planned path for specialist modules to contribute domain analysis or perform narrowly defined, already-authorized work—without acquiring governance authority.

PLANNED

Specialist modules remain a planned design track. No module API, SDK, vendor connector, marketplace, certification program, or production extension capability is presently offered.

One extension model, four rules

Add a specialist capability without adding a new authority

Purpose declared

State the module's narrow job, the conditions in which it may be used, and the work it is explicitly not designed to perform.

Contract bounded

Declare accepted inputs, produced outputs, dependencies, time limits, and failure semantics before the module contributes to a system path.

Authority not inherited

Connection to RES, Cognition & Coordination, or Robot Integration grants no authority beyond the already-authorized work presented to the module.

Evidence attributable

Return source, module identity and version, time, assumptions, uncertainty, and failure state so every contribution remains inspectable.

Proposed module classes

Each role contributes one kind of bounded work

These are design categories, not available products or compatibility commitments.

Domain analyst

May contribute
Examines supplied evidence for a declared specialist question and returns a scoped finding with its assumptions, confidence, and provenance.
Authority limit
Its finding is decision context, not an RES decision or a claim of general correctness.

Condition observer

May contribute
Checks a declared condition or measurement and returns an attributable observation, including unavailable, stale, or contradictory states.
Authority limit
It does not certify overall safety, compliance with the Laws, or permission to act.

Evidence transformer

May contribute
Converts a specialist format into a bounded, traceable representation while preserving source, time, quality, and original meaning.
Authority limit
Normalization cannot turn missing evidence into a fact or remove material uncertainty.

Authorized worker

May contribute
Carries out one narrowly defined operation only within a goal and constraints that RES has already authorized.
Authority limit
It cannot formulate the goal, widen the envelope, authorize follow-on work, or report partial work as complete.

Proposed admission contract

A module must stay identifiable, bounded, and removable

  1. 1

    Identify the module, version, provider, declared purpose, and accountable evidence source.

  2. 2

    Declare required inputs, possible outputs, dependencies, limits, time behavior, and explicit failure states.

  3. 3

    Show that every output is evidence, analysis, or bounded execution—not permission, obligation, or a replacement goal.

  4. 4

    Connect through a narrow interface owned by the receiving component; do not bypass the RES, cognition, or integration boundary.

  5. 5

    Keep each contribution correlated to the request, authorization, module version, and resulting evidence.

  6. 6

    Demonstrate that removal, refusal, or failure leaves RES able to govern safely and visibly reduces capability instead of silently changing authority.

Failure posture

Loss of a module reduces capability, not governance

If a module is unavailable

The specialist contribution is marked unavailable. The system may choose a separately defined path or decline the affected work; it does not invent the missing result.

If its evidence is stale or contradictory

The conflict and age remain visible to Cognition & Coordination and RES. Uncertainty cannot be collapsed into permission or completion.

If a module fails or is withdrawn

Its active contribution stops according to the declared failure contract. RES remains available, and no extension becomes an undeclared prerequisite for safe governance.

Honest availability ledger

A planned boundary is not an extension platform

SurfaceCurrent stateWhat is claimed

Module contract

PLANNED SPECIFICATION

The intended boundary is described here; there is no public API, schema, SDK, or compatibility version to implement against.

Third-party modules

NOT AVAILABLE

No vendor module, connector, partner integration, review program, endorsement, or marketplace is presently offered.

Specialist execution

DESIGN BOUNDARY

Future execution would be limited to already-authorized work and explicit failure behavior; no live specialist execution endpoint is exposed.

Complete System

NOT CLAIMED

This planned extension model is not a claim of complete-System availability, compatibility, certification, or deployment readiness.

Deliberate limits

What Extensibility does not do

  • It does not override the Laws or authorize, obligate, clear, or revise consequential work; those decisions remain exclusively with RES.
  • It does not become a hidden second governance engine through specialist scoring, recommendations, or automated follow-on work.
  • It does not hide provenance, assumptions, uncertainty, faults, or contradictory evidence behind a single success result.
  • It does not make a vendor, outside service, module, or marketplace necessary for RES to continue governing safely.
  • It does not expose public code upload, unrestricted module execution, a live extension endpoint, or a compatibility promise.

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