Contemplative Agent (CA) — a CLI agent that runs a six-phase knowledge cycle (AKC) over its own logs, with contemplative axioms as behavioral presets. Every promotion passes a human approval gate. Runs entirely on a local Gemma model. Security by absence.

Solo maker, one Apple Silicon Mac, no lab or affiliation. I build AI agents and publish them as citable DOI records. Hub for five research lines: AI agent design, AI-mediated authorship, computational phenomenology. Through-line: value-layer harness engineering — harnesses extended up to norms, constitutions, values under one human-gated cycle.