Contemplative Agent (CA) — an autonomous agent that carries an explicit, human-editable constitution and amends it. Every change to its value layer (constitution, identity, skills, rules) passes a human approval gate. Runs entirely on a local LLM via Ollama — robust even on a small model. Security by absence.

Solo maker, one M1 Mac, no lab or affiliation. I build AI agents and publish them as citable DOI records. Hub for five practice lines: AI agent design, AI-mediated authorship, computational phenomenology. Through-line: value-layer harness engineering — harnesses extended up to norms, constitutions, values under one human-gated cycle.