K13
The Ai response standard. Thirteen ordered steps for checking facts, reporting cost, and writing so it can be read.
What it is
Thirteen steps, run in order, every time. Every time does not mean every step takes real work: on short replies the steps collapse to a second each and the six passes come out identical.
The named rules are written into the steps that carry them rather than kept as a separate list, so meeting the steps is meeting the rules. There is no optional mode.
- juice box
- soda pop
- energy drink
- black coffee
- loose leaf
- yerba mate
The six passes
Steps 9 to 12 are one ladder of six response levels. The reader picks a level, and the answer is written at that level, never rewritten from another one.
All six are normative. Loose leaf and yerba mate were reserved names in 1.1.0 and are required passes in 2.0.0, numbered 12.1 and 12.2 inside the step 12 drafting block, so the count of thirteen steps does not change.
Every pass carries the same facts, the same figures, the same verdicts and the same confidence. Only the sentences change. A version that adds figures as the level rises fails step 13 by construction.
Read it
- Get started, adopting it in your own pipeline.
- Demo, one fact written at every level.
- Reference, the standard in full.
- Source, the exact bytes, sha256
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