Protocol

The human walks a path.

Each pass has one job and is not allowed to do the others. If a pass is blocked, the next pass does not run.

1. 0

   Intake

   Court, judge, caption, filing type, relief, facts, exhibits. Captured as fields. The writer does not start until court, filing type, and facts exist. Uploads are evidence. A may quote them. A may not invent a page that is not in an upload.

2. G

   Gate

   Not a credit. The gate looks up this court and this job — a New York summary judgment, a Texas petition, a federal 12(b)(6), a California ex parte — and lists every paper the filing actually requires. Prose papers are the draft. Numbered court PDFs (CM-010, JS-44, AO 440, FL-300, and the like) are listed, not filled. Exhibits and the appendix are the record, not a draft. Fill-in blanks stay blanks. Declarations stay unsigned. One-paper filings stay one paper.

3. A

   Writer

   Allowed: structure, theory, headings, argument, proposed citations, every paper in the gate filled from intake. Forbidden: chatting as counsel, inventing facts, skipping a cite “to fill later,” emitting a finished caption, signing a declaration. A proprietary custom-trained model writes. Not a frontier model. One credit is taken when this pass starts. The sample walkthrough does not consume a credit. Revisions on a paid matter are included in that same credit.

4. 2

   Corpus gate

   Not a model. Every cite is parsed and looked up in a reporter database. Hit attaches the opinion. Ambiguous, miss, or garbage — Kill. Checkers never see a fake as valid. This is the step that stops three models agreeing it sounded like a case.

5. B·C

   The Ward

   Two checker models, independent. They receive the sentence, the citation, the retrieved opinion or record page, and the allowed marks: Hold, Stretch, Kill. They do not rewrite, add a better case, or fix the argument by drafting. Either Kill — the line does not ship. Stretch is labeled advocacy, not a defect.

6. Σ

   Consensus

   Before bindery, A, B, and C sit in fresh context with only your intake. Two out of three adds a revision and the path runs again. Several rounds — cap at five. Unanimous “best possible,” or the cap, sends the draft to you.

7. You

   Review

   Approve, or add a missed point. Noise is ignored. A missed legal argument is voted on independently. Two out of three includes it and the path repeats.

8. D

   Compiler

   Runs only when zero Kills remain and you have approved. Fetches current local rules. If fetch fails, D stops unless you paste the rules. No memory of customary practice. D extracts this court's format — caption geometry, typeface, spacing, line numbers, counsel on the caption — into a spec. Signing is not format. That spec is what you would have put in a layout prompt. D does not emit PDF. GPT does not emit PDF. A stamp prints the papers from the spec. Not a stock template. Appeals and writs: after you approve the wording, the table of contents and table of authorities are written, the draft is stamped so page numbers exist, then those tables are filled and stamped again.

9. E

   Format check

   Checks the spec and the stamped packet against the fetched rules. Does not argue the case. Does not layout the page. Then A–E read the formatted packet once more — structure, citations, and on an appeal or writ the page numbers on the TOC and TOA.

10. ↓

    Packet

    Each paper in the filing is its own DOCX and PDF, plus a combined file. You approve the formatted copy. Then every reference file is wiped. This account keeps the brief. It does not keep the record. Court forms and exhibits are not in this set. Signing is not format. Never labeled ready to file. Every paper this filing actually requires is one draft — not one draft per notice, motion, and declaration.

11. p.

    Record pagination

    Appeals and writs often have to assemble the record into one exhibit packet. Upload the papers that will go in that packet on intake. The brief ships with placeholder page and line numbers. When the compiled packet exists, one model reads the packet and the filing and fills the blanks. It does not argue the law. It is not a second draft and is not charged. If the packet is not made yet, we go off the files you uploaded; when the compiled packet comes, we backfill.

Guide is the path. Ward is the gate. D is the bindery. The stamp is the paper.

Proprietary custom-trained models. No frontier model. No training on your data. Ambition from public defender to Saul Goodman — outlandish, still legally sound, stretch labeled.