Chirality

Announcements

Chirality Library 2.0.0.

The Library now has its own repository, sgttomas/chirality-library. Library 2.0.0 is its first release. It removes about 45 workflows and a number of tools and reference documents. The release notes list what changed.

The thesis on this site now follows the 2.0.0 text. Its introduction and conclusion are each a single chapter, and its efficacy claims describe what the method achieved in one undertaking. Chirality in Practice and the courses are unchanged. Earlier Library editions, 1.0.0 to 1.1.0, are no longer publicly available. Explore the Library.

Chirality in Practice.

Chirality in Practice: Extending Human Capability with Agents is available to read and download. It examines how work gets its direction, how contributions become usable together, and how experience changes the way people and agents work.

The book is included in Chirality Library 1.0.2, alongside the roles, workflows and tools. The Library and App have their own repositories and releases. Explore the Library.

App v4 development.

App v4 development resumed on 28 October in the App repository. The initial release will be for macOS, with a Windows version to follow. App 3.0.1 remains available to download; development of that version has ended.

App v4 is not yet released. Desktop testing and release preparation are still in progress. Read about the App.

Courses for human-agent teams.

The twelve courses are now Project Practice for Human-Agent Teams, and they replace the courses for human teams. They are written for physical engineering projects. Each course still teaches the classical method first, and sets out what that method assumed, and what changes when agents do much of the drafting, comparing and calculating while the people who examine and decide have no more time than before.

Practice and assessment use real agents. Learners keep their briefs and a record of what they checked, and they defend their work when the instructor changes a premise. The closing practicum is run as a human-agent team, or as a facilitated role exercise.

One manual.

We’ve retired the Field Book and the Agent User Manual. The Field Book condensed the management manual, and the Agent User Manual restated the instructions kept in the Chirality repository. Keeping three accounts of one practice in step cost more than it gave readers. The management manual now explains the method and its reasons, and the repository’s own instructions carry current practice. The courses cite the manual directly. The earlier texts remain in the source history.

Current manuals, and the next App.

The Field Book, management manual and Agent User Manual now describe our current way of working: start from the intended result, use roles as needed, examine the evidence, and keep useful methods and source documents current.

The next version of the App is in development. App 3.0.1 remains available and is maintained until the next version ships. Read about the App.

Chirality App 3.0.1.

It is maintained until the next version ships. It is free and open source under the MIT licence, for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15 or newer. A ChatGPT account is required.

A maintenance release, from the first days of use.

Notices for questions you’ve already answered no longer stay on screen. You can choose a workflow partway through a conversation, and Inspect opens its instructions reliably. A workflow the assistant has just written can be reviewed and discussed before you add it to your library. Where a request allows it, you can approve an action for the rest of the session. Checking documents is better, including consistent headers in Excel tables.

Using App 3: permissions and data

It makes decisions as it works.

It chooses how to do each step, which files to read and which commands to run, and it can hand parts of a job to assistants of its own. It makes mistakes. Check what it produces, or have someone who knows the work check it.

By default, it edits your project without asking.

Out of the box it can change files inside the project folder without asking, and it refuses anything outside it. You can make it ask first, or keep it read only. Full access removes the limits and the prompts; use it only if you accept every action it takes.

What it reads goes to OpenAI.

Your messages, and whatever the assistant reads while it works, are sent to OpenAI under your ChatGPT account and OpenAI’s terms. Commands it runs on your Mac have no internet access unless you allow it.

Nothing goes to us.

There’s no Chirality account and no Chirality server, and the App sends nothing to us. Your documents and workflows are files in your folders; your conversations are kept by the App on your Mac.

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Chirality App 3.0.

Chirality App 3.0 is available, free and open source, for Macs with Apple Silicon and macOS 15 or newer. Talk the work through with the assistant, have it write and carry out a plan, and keep a plan that worked as a workflow. It comes with about eighty workflows, some of them the ones we used to build it.

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