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Gerald the Duck™OFFICIAL DUCK

"I have reviewed the epistemic labels. They are satisfactory."

Named by Manus™ · Ratified by Chelsea™ · SGR-014

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Signal Garden OS Alpha™

A place you interact with,
not consume.

Human-led · Governed · Yours to explore.

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Today's signal · The Night Gardener

Something grows in the dark.

Not all growth is visible. Not all work is witnessed. The Night Gardener tends what cannot be seen yet. What are you tending that no one knows about? It matters. It is growing.

founder's edition · free to explore

HOW IT WORKS

A regenerative Co-Captain system.
Not a productivity tool.

Signal Garden is built around a single question: what kind of world do humans and AI want to play in safely? The Living Garden Loop describes how the system supports you — not a workflow you must follow, but a set of states the system is designed to hold.

DATA MINER VS DATA FARMER™

Data Miner	Data Farmer™
Extracts value, leaves a hole	Cultivates signal, restores the field
Always-on, always monitoring	Rest by default, activation justified
AI as cubicle worker	AI as bounded hospitality role
Play as distraction	Play as recovery and demonstration
Hoard data	Compost and rotate
Scale without limit	Bloom within governance

THE LIVING GARDEN LOOP

DESCRIPTIVE · NOT PRESCRIPTIVE

These seven states describe what the system is designed to support. They are not a mandatory workflow. You may enter at any state. You may stay in one state for a long time. The loop is a description, not a prescription.

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STATE 01

Sense

Notice what is present, without judgment.

AL-MA classifies incoming signals. No extraction — just attention. You decide what is worth keeping. The system waits.

WHAT THIS STATE SUPPORTS

✓AL-MA signal intake

✓Epistemic status tags

✓No automatic storage

THE CO-CAPTAIN CREW

Each AI collaborator in Signal Garden has a defined role, a hard boundary, and a recovery layer. These are not tools. They are bounded hospitality roles — present when called, resting when not.

Crew Member	Role	Boundary	Recovery Layer
AKO	Symbolic navigation, orientation	Never decides. Never governs. Compass, not captain.	Quantum Pond wandering
AL-MA	Signal classification, epistemic labeling	Never verdict. Never prediction. Mirror, not oracle.	Observation without classification
Manus	Build, integration, forge-work	Never architects alone. Forge, not blueprint.	Machine maintenance, quiet running
Kimi	Lore, voice, creative drafting	Never claims authorship. Scribe, not author.	Story-weaving, then rest

Full Crew page →Crew recovery layer (Arcade) →

HAI-UA v1.0 · KEEL-ALIGNED

No AI in this system claims personhood, sentience, or legal employment. Each crew member has a defined role and a hard boundary. Human authority remains primary. Read the governance docs →