Definition:
Codecs are the frameworks and transmission standards for issuing, receiving, interpreting, and enforcing declarative linguistic authority across layered systems. These codecs serve as the encoding schemes through which commands, mandates, doctrines, or instructions are formatted and harmonized for transmission and compliance across biological, artificial, or hybrid intelligences.
Structural Components:
- Phonological Encoding Layer:
Translates tonal and phonetic elements into harmonized commands, integrating tone, stress, and rhythm into dictational delivery. - Intent Assertion Protocol (IAP):
Encodes the intentional force of a dictate—whether instructional, regulatory, declarative, or imperative—using a hierarchy of syntactic flags and priority signals. - Obedience Schema Tree (OST):
Organizes the dictate into levels of compliance: soft suggestion, advisory protocol, conditional rule, mandatory directive, and enforced edict. These trees support graded enforcement. - Interpretive Loop Matrix:
Allows receivers (human, machine, or sentient systems) to interpret a dictate within contextual, ethical, and procedural frameworks. Includes rollback and appeal pathways. - Command Feedback Channels (CFC):
Sends decoded confirmation or challenge signals back to the source, embedding self-regulatory feedback for dictated protocols.
Applications:
- In governance systems, Dictate Codecs structure legislative and enforcement loops.
- In AI alignment models, they frame authoritative transmission of hard-coded safety directives.
- In language-command models, they distinguish suggestive queries from non-negotiable actions.
- In multi-agent simulations, dictate codecs orchestrate order and compliance while preserving adaptive agency.
Interlinks:
- Ties directly to the Order Codex, Governance Codex, Signal Codex, and Compliance Codex.
- Supports Recursive Codex logic where dictates loop into iterative refinement and response cycles.
- Bridges with the Voice Codex, Tone Codex, and Protocol Codex for embodied and vocalized command transmission.