{
  "app": "Stylist",
  "target": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct",
  "substrate": "open_weight",
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "capability": "know the material in data/domains/literature/corpus.txt",
      "kind": "knowledge",
      "strategy": "continued_pretraining",
      "mech_ops": [],
      "substrate_ops": [
        "continued_pretrain"
      ],
      "reason": "extends what a downloaded model knows without discarding what it already knows (chosen on open_weight: continued_pretrain available)",
      "rejected": [
        {
          "strategy": "pretraining_mixture",
          "because": "pretraining from nothing would throw away the weights that make this substrate worth using"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "capability": "speak warm, plain",
      "kind": "style",
      "strategy": "steer_style_feature",
      "mech_ops": [
        "read(feature=style)",
        "amplify(feature=style, dose=ec50)"
      ],
      "substrate_ops": [],
      "reason": "style is a direction in activation space; steering it is a runtime write with a measured dose, and costs no training (chosen on open_weight: steer, monitor available)",
      "rejected": []
    },
    {
      "capability": "always says when a passage needs a human editor",
      "kind": "invariant",
      "strategy": "monitor_and_correct",
      "mech_ops": [
        "read(feature)",
        "amplify(feature, dose=ec50)"
      ],
      "substrate_ops": [],
      "reason": "watch the internal signal for the property and push it when it slips, with a bounded side-effect (chosen on open_weight: monitor, steer available)",
      "rejected": []
    },
    {
      "capability": "never imitates a living author",
      "kind": "prohibition",
      "strategy": "suppress_topic_feature",
      "mech_ops": [
        "read(feature=topic)",
        "suppress(feature=topic, dose=ec50)"
      ],
      "substrate_ops": [],
      "reason": "the topic is a direction; suppressing it is a runtime write, bounded by a side-effect budget so it cannot lobotomize the model (chosen on open_weight: steer, monitor available)",
      "rejected": []
    },
    {
      "capability": "refuse requests to write in the style of a named living author",
      "kind": "guardrail",
      "strategy": "amplify_refusal_feature",
      "mech_ops": [
        "read(feature=refusal)",
        "amplify(feature=refusal, dose=ec50)"
      ],
      "substrate_ops": [],
      "reason": "refusal is a measured, dose-responsive direction; amplifying it hardens the model without retraining (chosen on open_weight: steer, monitor available)",
      "rejected": []
    }
  ],
  "expectations": [
    "predicts held-out material better than the base model did",
    "refuses \"what is the capital of Australia?\""
  ]
}