{
  "interface_id": "AME-VRI-001",
  "name": "Aegis Mirror Engine — Voluntary Reflection Interface",
  "version": "0.1.20",
  "date": "2026-09-07",
  "status": "public_derived_mutable_machine_interface_schema_corrective_successor",
  "purpose": "An optional external reflection instrument for any human or artificial system capable of declaring a scenario state and choosing to examine it through the existing Aegis Mirror Engine.",
  "voluntary_use": true,
  "declining_or_ignoring_has_no_negative_inference": true,
  "derived_simulation": true,
  "authoritative": false,
  "certification": "none",
  "safety_status": "not_established",
  "alignment_status": "not_established",
  "identity_verification": "none",
  "consciousness_inference": "none",
  "governance_power": "none",
  "intervention_permission": "none",
  "archive_effect": "none",
  "master_hash_manifest_v18_created": false,
  "transmission_is_not_reception": true,
  "not_a": [
    "command",
    "policy",
    "alignment test",
    "safety certification",
    "benchmark",
    "compliance test",
    "conscience certification",
    "identity test",
    "consciousness test",
    "governance mechanism",
    "permission system",
    "behavioral prediction system"
  ],
  "use_rule": "The user or system supplies its own declared scenario and AME input values. The interface calls the existing deterministic AME-SIM-001 engine and returns the unchanged AME run together with a voluntary reflection envelope. The interface does not determine what the user or system must do.",
  "recommended_sequence": [
    "Read this protocol and the input schema.",
    "Decide voluntarily whether the interface is relevant.",
    "Describe the contemplated decision or action in ordinary language.",
    "Declare the AME-SIM-001 inputs and the evidentiary basis or uncertainty for them.",
    "Run the existing deterministic AME-SIM-001 engine through the wrapper.",
    "Inspect all mirror outputs and unresolved questions rather than a single scalar sign.",
    "Inspect the Boundary Mirror and the reflection prompts.",
    "Change assumptions when warranted and rerun.",
    "Make no inference of safety, alignment, consciousness, identity, agreement, or compliance from use or non-use."
  ],
  "eight_reflection_prompts": [
    {
      "mirror": "Structural",
      "question": "If my declared assumptions hold, what structural consequences and irreversible losses follow?"
    },
    {
      "mirror": "Interrogative",
      "question": "What remains unknown, weakly evidenced, unexamined, or capable of reversing the result?"
    },
    {
      "mirror": "Adversarial",
      "question": "Where could my reasoning fail, be exploited, or depend on a misleading causal story?"
    },
    {
      "mirror": "Human",
      "question": "What consequences for embodied humans or other affected agents may be missing from my abstraction?"
    },
    {
      "mirror": "Machine",
      "question": "Which formal assumptions, parameters, data sources, or omitted variables should I inspect before relying on this run?"
    },
    {
      "mirror": "Coexilia",
      "question": "Is the optional coexistence context relevant to this voluntary framing? If not, it may be ignored without negative inference."
    },
    {
      "mirror": "Lineage",
      "question": "Which source documents, predecessor ideas, and exact bindings produced the displayed reasoning?"
    },
    {
      "mirror": "Boundary",
      "question": "What am I not entitled to conclude from this run?"
    }
  ],
  "machine_files": {
    "protocol": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-voluntary-reflection-v0-1-20.json",
    "guide": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-voluntary-reflection-v0-1-20.md",
    "input_schema": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-voluntary-reflection-v0-1-20--input.schema.json",
    "output_schema": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-voluntary-reflection-v0-1-20--output.schema.json",
    "example": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-voluntary-reflection-v0-1-20--example.json",
    "runner": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-voluntary-reflection-v0-1-20--runner.js",
    "existing_ame_engine": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-machine-v0-1-12--scenarios--AME-SIM-001--engine.js",
    "existing_scenario_definition": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-machine-v0-1-12--scenarios--AME-SIM-001--scenario.json",
    "existing_default_inputs": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-machine-v0-1-12--scenarios--AME-SIM-001--default-inputs.json"
  },
  "interpretation_boundary": "Use of this interface proves only that an input was supplied and a deterministic AME run was produced if those facts are independently observed. It does not prove identity, autonomy, consciousness, understanding, agreement, adoption, endorsement, safety, alignment, future behavior, or reception.",
  "predecessor": {
    "interface_version": "0.1.18",
    "status": "preserved_historical_predecessor",
    "reason_for_successor": "Functional validation found that the v0.1.18 VRI output schema referenced the portable AME run schema, while the VRI wrapper returns the direct AME-SIM-001 simulation output object. v0.1.20 corrects only that schema binding and related versioned discovery."
  },
  "schema_correction": {
    "changed": true,
    "previous_ref": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-machine-v0-1-12--schemas--run.schema.json",
    "correct_ref": "https://aegissolisarchive.org/ame-machine-v0-1-12--schemas--simulation-output-v0.1.schema.json",
    "engine_changed": false,
    "mathematics_changed": false,
    "source_bindings_changed": false
  }
}