Visca

VISCA RESEARCH

The agent
is not
the model.

A useful agent is a continuing, accountable participant—not a disposable model session.

We study the properties required for the same agent to retain evidence, identity, authority, memory, and history as it moves across software, laboratories, machines, and physical bodies.

THE VISCA HYPOTHESIS

Intelligence may be replaceable. Accountability cannot be.
A researcher working across software, laboratory instruments, and a robotic hand prototype
ONE IDENTITYONE CONTINUING RECORDMANY PHYSICAL FORMS
WHAT MAY CHANGE

Model · provider · computer · interface · body

WHAT MUST PERSIST

Identity · memory · authority · relationships · record

WHERE IT OPERATES

Software · laboratories · machines · the physical world

Every transition is attributable Every consequential action remains governed

THE FIVE PROPERTIES

Visca is a standard for the agent that continues.

Each property is a system requirement with a concrete question it must answer under real operating conditions.

V

Verifiable

Claims, decisions, and outcomes remain connected to the evidence and environment state that produced them.

TESTCan an authorized reviewer move from an outcome back to its observations, sources, and approvals?
I

Interoperable

Identity, memory, relationships, and authority survive changes in models, providers, tools, computers, and physical forms.

TESTCan the substrate change without creating a new agent or losing the accountable record?
S

Secure

Every capability is bound to explicit identity, least-privilege authority, human-defined limits, and immediate revocation.

TESTCan a consequential action be denied, constrained, or stopped at the boundary where it matters?
C

Cognitive

Working memory integrates goals, people, evidence, constraints, and changing world state without confusing observation with inference.

TESTCan the agent explain what changed, what it knows, what it inferred, and what remains uncertain?
A

Auditable

Intent, context, approvals, model and tool paths, actions, interventions, observations, and outcomes form one inspectable history.

TESTCan the work be reconstructed end to end—including who authorized it and what the world returned?

CURRENT TRACKS

Proof before promise.

We build the smallest credible system, test it in a real field, and carry what survives into the next one.

IN PROGRESS

CONTINUITY

One identity across changing intelligence

Testing whether work, relationships, authority, and memory survive changes in model, provider, tool, and compute environment.Explore the field
IN PROGRESS

SCIENTIFIC WORK

An experiment as a continuing record

Connecting hypotheses, protocols, instruments, observations, anomalies, evidence, and human interpretation without breaking provenance.Explore the field
IN PROGRESS

EMBODIMENT

New bodies without a new self

Treating hands, sensors, mobile platforms, and machines as governed capabilities of a persistent agent—not isolated identities.Explore the field

THE STANDARD

If the identity breaks at the boundary, the system is not finished.

A useful agent should not become a stranger each time the model changes, the software closes, or a machine turns on.

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