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Chat · Plan · Make

A human-centered AI project environment with one durable Project Core and three role-separated lenses

The dominant interface for artificial intelligence collapses exploration, commitment, execution, and review into one conversation. This is convenient for short tasks and cognitively expensive for serious projects. A casual thought can look like a directive. A model proposal can be remembered as a user decision. A worker result can replace an accepted artifact. The user must reconstruct current state across chats, providers, files, devices, and tools.

Glyph Desk is a human-centered project environment built around three permanent synchronized lenses over one durable Project Core:

  • Chat: understand, explore, question, and evaluate;
  • Plan: decide, constrain, structure, and authorize;
  • Make: execute, inspect, verify, refresh, and deliver.

The machine unifies state. The interface separates responsibility.

Conversation must cross a boundary before becoming intent. Intent must cross another boundary before becoming consequential action. Accepted and working results remain separate. Models and providers rent scoped project context; the user owns the Project Core. ZEKE can continuously reduce the gap between Plan and working result only within explicit authority, budget, and evidence gates.

Glyph Desk is not differentiated by three columns. It is differentiated by the contracts underneath them.

Current evidence state

SPECIFIED

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Publication

  • Full paper: /papers/p22-glyph-desk
  • Claim ledger: content/papers/p22-glyph-desk/claim-ledger.json
  • Source manifest: content/papers/p22-glyph-desk/source-manifest.json
  • Diagrams: 4
  • Approximate body length: 1,575 words

Demonstrations

  • d07-cas-native-work-order
  • d13-context-corolla
  • d14-workpage-generator

Benchmarks

  • b09-workpage-os

Public boundary

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