Know WhatYou Believe.

Build your belief fileMap your beliefs to your AI

Your AI ships with a religion, is it yours?

Every AI ships with the worldview of its makers. Somebody decided what's safe, what's off-limits, what's right and wrong, and what gets pushed back on. It's time to take ownership.

See a belief structure.

Explore the Council of Rivendell’s web of beliefs in an interactive 3D space.

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Choose a belief example

Fictional, unratified example · reconstructed from the Council of Rivendell demo, not a real person’s beliefs. Inferred grip values remain open to challenge.

One file.Every major AI platform.Your beliefs.

Belief Protocol gives you one human-readable file you can own, read, edit, and carry across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Venice.ai.

Write down what you believe — plainly, in a file you own — and give your AI a worldview you chose instead of one you inherited.

Open source.

Human-readable.

Editable.

Portable.

Your beliefs in a format your agent can read and respect.

Every belief records how central it is, how tightly it is held, and why it is believed.

Agent Orientations turn those beliefs into instructions the AI follows. Every instruction traces back to a stated belief. Nothing is smuggled in.

Skills tell an AI how. Belief files tell it why things matter.

BELIEF.mdHuman-readable / versioned

---
name: belief-protocol
version: "2.1"
structures: [worldview, web, decision-surface]
conflict-resolution: principles-over-rules
on-anomaly: surface
layer-policy: strict
---

# Belief Structure

A typed description of how a principal's beliefs
are organized, held, transmitted, or defended.

## Agent Orientations

**Surface, don't patch.**
← on-anomaly: surface

When a question falls outside the web, say so
and mark the answer provisional. Do not quietly
extend the web to cover it.

This isn't just a prompt.

A prompt evaporates. A belief file is structured, readable, editable, portable, and owned by you.

A stated worldview is more arguable than a hidden one. Belief Protocol records why a belief is held, which sets what counts as a fair challenge.

BELIEFWhat is held, how central it is, how tightly it is held, and why.

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AGENT ORIENTATIONA source-linked instruction derived from the stated belief.

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ACTIONObservable behavior with a visible philosophical source.

Beliefs in action

Meet the leaders putting their convictions into words. Watch their story, read their profile, and explore the belief file built from what they believe.

Explore the stories

Episcopal

Justin
Holcomb

Fifth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida

Watch · Read · Explore file →

Catholic

Andreas
Widmer

Director of the Arthur & Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor of Practice at The Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business

Watch · Read · Explore file →

Open by design.

Belief Protocol 2.1 is public on GitHub and licensed under Apache 2.0.

The standard is deliberately non-proprietary. Anyone can inspect it, adopt it, fork it, or improve it — including our competition — because a standard that one organization controls isn't a standard.

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