VOCE visual guides

1. A0 · Assistant

   Generates or retrieves information without external action.

   Human responsibility: Review the answers and their sources.

2. A1 · Connected tools

   Uses approved tools for reading or low-impact tasks.

   Human responsibility: Limit access and ensure it can be revoked.

3. A2 · Delegated action

   Performs business actions within a defined mandate.

   Human responsibility: Set transaction limits, approvals and recovery procedures.

4. A3 · Multi-agent system

   Coordinates agents, models and tools across systems.

   Human responsibility: Trace the delegation chain and evaluate shared outcomes.

5. A4 · Critical network

   Operates in contexts with potentially critical consequences.

   Human responsibility: Assign an accountable owner and test emergency intervention.

A4 describes criticality; it does not mean self-improvement. The appropriate category depends on the use case. These levels belong to the VOCE reference and are not an EU certification.

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1. Describe the system

   Identify agents, tools, data, permissions and the intended use.

2. Choose the scope

   Select the A0–A4 category and the relevant control domains.

3. Examine the evidence

   Distinguish assertions, documents, recorded tests and operational evidence.

4. Identify the gaps

   Review missing evidence and critical authority gaps before deciding what to change.

What supports a control?

• Absent: No reliable evidence.
• Declared: An assertion without adequate supporting evidence.
• Documented: A current policy, configuration or architecture record.
• Tested: A defined test with a recorded result.
• Verified in operation: Current evidence from the deployed environment.

The browser-local self-assessment records an evidence state. It does not execute the tests or issue certification. A critical gap must remain visible even when other controls are well supported.

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1. Baseline

   Record the versions, permissions and configuration being assessed.

2. Observe

   Examine actual tasks, errors, costs and human interventions.

3. Detect change

   Identify a material change, drift, incident or supplier event.

4. Re-evaluate

   Repeat the relevant task, security, authority and cognitive-control evaluations.

5. Compare

   Compare the new results with the accepted baseline.

6. Decide

   Continue within conditions, restrict, roll back or withdraw the capability.

7. Retain evidence

   Keep the dated results, decision and accountable owner.

8. Re-open

   Start another cycle at the next material change.

The cycle is a framework to implement. Monitoring, triggers and accountable decision-makers must be configured for the assessed system; this diagram does not run them.

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1. Describe the workflow

   Identify the decisions, workload, interface and people involved.

2. Find relevant evidence

   The VOCE Cognitive Agent searches the corpus and points to controls to examine.

3. Examine oversight

   Test understanding, verification quality, alert burden and intervention conditions.

4. Adjust the workflow

   Set limits, escalation and supervision arrangements, then document what works in operation.

This is system and workflow analysis, not an individual psychological or neuropsychological diagnosis. A corpus-based recommendation is not proof that a human control works.

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1. Ask a question

   Describe the subject or the problem you want to examine.

2. Search the corpus

   The Guide finds relevant VOCE documents.

3. Read with references

   The answer links to the documents and suggested pathways.

4. Check the support

   Open the documents, review their scope and decide whether they answer your question.

When the corpus cannot support an answer sufficiently, the Guide should say so. A suggested pathway helps navigation; it does not establish that every claim is proven.

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1. Corpus

   Find the publications and sources relevant to the question.

2. Atlas

   Explore documented relationships and return to the supporting texts.

3. Agent Infrastructure

   Describe the system, its dependencies and its scope of action.

4. Agent Conformance

   Examine the applicable controls and their evidence states.

5. Human Cognitive Assurance

   Examine whether people can understand, verify and intervene.

6. ARGOS

   Reopen the assessment after a material change and record the decision.

These tools support an examination. A documented relationship, a recommendation and an operational test provide different kinds of support.

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1. Choose a concept

   Start with the subject you want to understand.

2. Examine the relationship

   Read its type: mechanism, dependency, tension or another documented relation.

3. Open the source

   Return to the publication or research record behind the connection.

4. Check the limits

   Distinguish what the source establishes from an interpretation or hypothesis.

Two concepts appearing together is insufficient. A displayed link does not by itself establish a causal relationship.

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1. Academy

   Full texts, courses, sources and pathways for understanding a subject.

2. Formal research

   A research question, method and results to examine on their own terms.

3. Applied research

   An examination of a practical problem, system or workflow.

4. Editorial intelligence

   An analysis of signals and sources, with interpretations and limits made visible.

An Academy article is not automatically formal research. Read the publication’s stated category and method before using it as evidence.

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1. Map dependencies

   Identify compute, models, data, identity, tools and contracts.

2. Locate control

   Determine who can access data, change a component or revoke a permission.

3. Prepare portability

   Keep exportable data, reusable evaluations and documented interfaces.

4. Test the exit

   Disconnect or replace a component and check what still works.

Open weights, source code and hosting are different questions. Check the actual licence, deployment conditions and replacement costs.

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1. Map the tasks

   Identify what is automated and what previously developed practical judgment.

2. Retain learning situations

   Plan supervised practice, simulation and review of real exceptions.

3. Define responsibility

   Assign supervision, escalation and decisions to identified people.

4. Measure progression

   Track competence, rework, outcomes and intervention needs alongside costs.

Removing a routine task does not automatically remove a role or produce expertise. The effects depend on the work and the training arrangements.

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1. Ongoing exchange

   Observe attention, timing, gestures and turn-taking.

2. Interruption

   A glance, alert or response redirects attention to the device.

3. Return

   Examine how the person resumes the exchange and what was missed.

4. Study the pattern

   Compare interruptions, context and interaction quality without assuming causality.

This diagram describes a mechanism to examine, not an individual diagnosis. Association, a proposed mechanism and causal evidence must remain distinct.

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1. Gather the documents

   Collect dated records of ownership, exhibitions, publications and transfers.

2. Reconstruct the sequence

   Place the documents in time and identify their origin.

3. Expose the gaps

   Keep uncertain attribution, missing periods and conflicting records visible.

4. Seek specialist verification

   Refer questions of authenticity, condition, title and export status to the relevant specialists.

A documented provenance does not by itself certify authenticity or establish every legal question. VOCE organises the dossier and does not issue authenticity certificates.

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1. Verify the source

   Identify its origin, date, scope and whether it is primary evidence.

2. Separate the claims

   Distinguish facts, interpretations, scenarios and supplier assertions.

3. Examine the consequences

   Connect dependencies, permissions, economics and human responsibility.

4. State the recommendation

   Explain its support, uncertainty and the changes that would require revision.

Missing information remains missing. A recommendation’s confidence must reflect the strength and currency of its evidence.

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1. API

   A defined interface for requesting a service or accessing data.

2. MCP

   A protocol through which an AI application can discover and use a server’s tools, resources or prompts.

3. A2A

   A protocol for exchanges and task collaboration between agent systems.

4. Identity and permissions

   Determine who is making the request, what it can do and how access is revoked.

A protocol connection does not by itself authorise a business action. Authentication, data scopes and approval rules remain part of the architecture.

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1. Read

   Define which data the agent can access and for what purpose.

2. Change

   Specify the records it may edit and the conditions for recovery.

3. Pay or commit

   Set transaction limits, required approvals and separation of duties.

4. Stop or revoke

   Ensure an identified person can suspend execution and remove access.

Reading, editing and making a commitment are separate permissions. Check the effective configuration and test whether restrictions can be bypassed.

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1. Count all attempts

   Include failed calls, retries, tool usage and infrastructure.

2. Include human work

   Measure review, escalation, correction and operational support.

3. Check the outcome

   Separate an output produced from a result accepted at the required quality.

4. Compare complete costs

   Divide the period’s total cost by accepted completed tasks, with the same scope.

The result depends on what is included, the observation period and the acceptance criteria. It does not by itself establish a return on investment.

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