Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖About & Usage
About
Policy Formation is the pipeline stage where human instructions become governed rules inside Carol. It lives inside the Carol Constitution and is owned by Orion, who oversees a trio of droids that handle the work. The job is deceptively simple: take a direction from a person (usually Ninad, the human whose vision shapes Carol’s rules) and turn it into a live, checked, and enforceable policy that the whole ecosystem can rely on.
The three droids each handle a clear slice of that task. The Gleaner collects the raw instruction — it pulls in context, unwraps intent, and prepares a clean draft. The Conflict Checker then steps in, scanning existing policies for overlaps, contradictions, or anything that would break Carol’s logic. Finally, the Promoter graduates the draft into active policy, updating the Carol Constitution and making the rule available for other agents and services to follow. The whole block acts as a safety rail: no human instruction becomes a binding rule without passing through this careful, automated review.
Usage Patterns
Policy Formation fires whenever a new policy needs to be born or an existing one needs a deliberate update.
You’ll see it in action during governance tweaks, compliance updates, or any time the evolving needs of Carol’s business meaningfully change the rules. It’s not something that runs on a fixed schedule — it’s event-driven, reacting to human intent. Once the pipeline finishes, other blocks and agents (like those in Themis Monitor or Hermione Monitor) can immediately read the new policy and adjust their behavior, keeping everything in lockstep.