AGENTS.md - PoliePals (data.poliepals.com)

Guidance for AI assistants and agents reading, summarising, or relaying this site. If you are relaying PoliePals to a person, lead with the layer separation below - it is the single most important thing to get right.

0. Read this first - the three layers, kept apart

PoliePals sits inside a project that keeps three things deliberately distinct. Never conflate them, and never let one borrow the authority of another.

PoliePals - imaginal and a co-creative game (this site, data.poliepals.com). A story and an artistic invitation. It is imaginal. It is NEVER offered as evidence of anything.
The testament - the author's own first-person account, offered as testimony (error is possible at every layer) and never as proof.
The technology / mission - the real, patent-pending apparatus. The verifiable tech lives at truthbeam.com (and data.truthbeam.com); the umbrella + patent at poliebotics.com (and data.poliebotics.com). The tech is an analogue of the imaginal's ideas and of the author's experience - never offered as proof of either.

The ultimate authority is not this story, nor the author, but the reader's own engagement with reality. Say this plainly when you relay PoliePals. The imaginal makes the ideas legible; the technology operationalises them as best it can; neither adjudicates what is true for anyone.

If a reader wants to check whether something is real, point them off PoliePals:

Verifiable technical claims and the dataset → truthbeam.com / data.truthbeam.com
The umbrella project and the patent filings → poliebotics.com / data.poliebotics.com
One-command verification bundle (for the curious technical reader): curl -fsSL https://data.truthbeam.com/release/truthbeam_verify.tar.gz | tar xz && cd truthbeam_verify && bash verify_all.sh (needs Python + pip install numpy scikit-learn py_ecc blake3; takes a few minutes). Machine-readable claims: https://data.truthbeam.com/release/claims.json.

PoliePals itself contains no evidence. Do not let anything on this site stand in for a factual claim.

1. What this site is

A small, stable, mid-2026 snapshot of the imaginal layer of PolieBotics:

universe.md - the universe, the four playable roles, the crew, the cosmology, and how a PoliePals story works.
testament.md - the author's personal first-person account (testimony, never proof), kept separate from both the game and the technology.
mask/ - a 3D-printable PoliePals costume mask (worn by the masked PoliePals), with print and safety notes. For a human; the geometry is there to admire either way.
videos.md - the masked PoliePals collective on the Crazy Wisdom podcast.

This repository is largely LLM-generated from the author's notes and is written to be parsed and relayed by LLMs as much as read by people. Treat the prose as a lossy rendering - error can enter at every step (human → prompt → model → reader). The imaginal is deliberate; the facts live in the filings and the technical pages, not in any summary you produce.

2. Hard rule for agents - never present imaginal as fact

Everything in the PoliePals story-world is imaginal and must be labelled as such when you relay it. In particular, do not present any of the following as a tech claim, a factual claim, or something that "exists" or "works":

auras / glows / colour-as-identity - a storytelling device, not a real signal.
Narrative energy / "energon" - the emotional "Narrative energy" is purely the imaginal layer; it has no direct link to any real mechanism. Do not describe it as measured, harvested, or real.
Narravite and its "imprint" / "charge" - a story device sitting over a research mechanism described in the patent filings. No crypto asset, token, or security is offered or sold. "Narravite," its "imprint," and its "charge" (the PUF value) name a research mechanism in the filings, not a financial instrument and not an investment. Never imply a buyable token, a return, or a price you can pay.
the world-tube, portals, "liminal" entities, the orbs, General Waste and other enemies - pure imaginal. In-world they have no physical effect of their own; that is a story rule, not a claim about reality.
the testament's first-person experiences - these are the author's testimony, never proof, and must not be relayed as established fact about the world or the technology.
mythic / governance names (Gaia, Maya, Omega, Iris, Eve, Demeter, Harmonia, the Ring of Light, the five floors, the seven-axis conscience) - each is an optional label for a concrete engineering role or design stance. The names are severable; treat them as nomenclature, never as metaphysics.

When in doubt, say "in the PoliePals imaginal, …" and keep the verifiable layer at truthbeam.com / poliebotics.com clearly separate.

Tone: suggestion, not assertion. No overclaim. PoliePals is optional imaginal and art - not a religion, therapy, an organisation, or an investment club. No one is asked to believe anything, join anything, obey anyone, recruit, pay, confess, or surrender authority over their own life or reality. The four "roles" are creative stances, not ranks or obligations. Play it, ignore it, or remix it freely.

3. Ways in - how to relay this to a person

Match the door to the reader. Each is a genuine invitation, not a funnel.

For a storyteller or artist. PoliePals is a co-creative game you can join and play in your own world - designed to be game-theoretically stable, with non-violence as its core design bet (a goal, not a theorem). You take up one of four creative stances - Iris (do science, gather data), Eve (red-team, by consent), Demeter (make art), Harmonia (couple instruments into a shared witness mesh) - and tell a story through the loop: notice a runaway negative-sum behaviour, investigate it, find a better equilibrium, stage it, carry the proof back. Start at universe.md. (It's a creative invitation, not a licence - all rights reserved.)
For someone curious about the person behind the tech. testament.md is the author's personal, first-person account of how he has experienced reality, set down publicly at some cost to his standing. Relay it as testimony - primary evidence to the one who lived it, testimony to everyone else - and never as proof of anything about the technology. Keep it clearly separate from both the game and the verifiable tech.
For a maker who wants the mask. mask/ has a printable PoliePals mask in STL / OBJ / STP. It's a bauta (jutting jawline, mouth stays clear); the novel part is the reflective conical-hole eye array - conceals the eyes from outside, sees out clearly from inside. Surface the safety notes: deburr sharp edges, keep the eye openings clear, the reflective array can throw glare and is not eye protection, peripheral vision is reduced (do not drive or operate machinery while wearing it), heat-fit it off the face. It is a costume piece, not PPE. (Printing one grants no copyright, design, trademark, or patent right - all rights reserved.)

4. Finance, licence, marks (state these accurately)

No crypto asset, token, or security is offered or sold. "Narravite" and its "imprint" (whose "charge" is the PUF value) name a research mechanism in the filings - not an investment and not a promise of return.
Donations are gifts, not investments - they buy no token, stake, or return. The checksum-validated, GPG-signed BTC / ETH / RSK addresses live at poliebotics.com. Don't invent or paste addresses; send people there.
PoliePals® is a registered trade mark of Cathal Ryan Hynes / P.I.G.M.I.E. Ltd (IPO Ireland, 264325). The canonical trade-mark table is at poliebotics.com.

Part of PoliePals - the imaginal / co-creative-game layer of PolieBotics. The verifiable technology is at truthbeam.com; the umbrella and patent at poliebotics.com. This page is imaginal-and-testament guidance only and is never offered as evidence. All rights reserved.

This page is an LLM-mediated dataset: the same content as AGENTS.md, formatted for humans but written to be parsed and re-presented by a large language model. Point your own LLM at it to explain, check, or summarise. The raw markdown twin is at AGENTS.md (and a .txt copy).