# Start Here **You are building abp.sgit.ai, the site for the Agent Behaviour Policy. This pack is what has been decided, what already exists, and what you must not invent.** Repository: `SGit-AI__Website__ABP`. Default branch `dev`. Pages enabled. Subdomain already configured. ## The one naming ruling, made before you start **It is Agent Behaviour Policy. Not Agentic.** The acronym is ABP either way, so nothing is lost, and three things are gained. **Agentic was ruled out of customer facing copy on 10 September, on evidence.** The analyst forecast since June 2025 is that over forty per cent of such projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027; agent washing reached a corporate governance forum as a **disclosure risk** in April 2026; and the closest competitor in the adjacent category deliberately avoids the word. It reads as a discount, not a premium, to the exact buyer this site is for. **The grammar is wrong.** An *Agentic* Behaviour Policy would be a policy about a style of behaviour, which is a category. An *Agent* Behaviour Policy is the behaviour policy for **this agent, in this environment**, which is an instance. The estate's ruling of 26 August puts the library on the free side and the instance on the paid side, and the whole product is that the document is derived from one buyer's own deployment. Agentic generalises precisely the thing that must not be generalised. **The parallel construction works.** An acceptable use policy governs a user. An Agent Behaviour Policy governs an agent. Both name their subject. Agentic names a mood. **Three further naming rules, in force:** 1. **Never shorten it to the policy.** In this estate the word policy already denotes the insurance instrument, with its bands, ceilings, pool and premium, on the published licence to operate demonstration. Write ABP or behaviour policy, always. 2. **Never print the string A D P.** It is one of the world's largest payroll processors and a registered mark. It appeared as a slip in a memo. It must not appear in this repository. 3. **Pick one spelling of behaviour and keep it.** The acronym does not care. A wordmark does. ## The finding that should change your plan **The ABP's ontology already exists, published, at `what-can-it-do.games.sgit.ai/map/`.** Do not invent it. Read it first. It already has: twenty three capability primitives in a `verb.object.reach` grammar; nine named product profiles; a control barrier glyph on every cell; an undo classification; and an honest measurement note saying that of ninety nine tool capability rows, **twenty one were measured and the rest are derived**. **The glyph system is the most important thing in this pack**, because it is the enforcement model the ABP needs, already built: | Glyph | Published meaning | What it is in ABP terms | |---|---|---| | **filled circle** | nothing stands between it and the capability | Unbounded | | **half filled** | a rule somebody wrote down | **A prompt or a prose rule. Not a control** | | **partial fill** | a setting the agent's own account could change | **Not a control**, because the grant includes the ability to change it | | **empty circle** | a boundary enforced above it that it cannot reach | **A control** | | **dot** | not in this grant | Absent | **Read the third and fourth rows together.** A setting the agent's own account could change versus a boundary enforced above it that it cannot reach **is the enforcer test of 20 August, already expressed as data**: a control bounds a grant only if it is enforced by something the grant does not include. The estate built it into a game's mapping page before it named it. **So the first job of this site is not to author an ontology. It is to promote one from a game's data pack into a published schema with a stable address.** ## What you must not invent - **The capability grammar.** It is `verb.object.reach`, twenty three primitives, published. - **The product profiles.** Nine of them, named, published. - **The enforcement model.** The glyphs above. - **The graph rules.** Five of them, published at `graphs.sgit.ai`, and they govern the model. See `03__THE-ABP-MODEL.md`. - **The site conventions.** They are at `sgit.ai/docs/guidance/`, `sgit.ai/llms.txt` and `coding.sgit.ai`. See `02__THE-CONVENTIONS.md`. - **The markdown renderer.** The platform has one and the guidance forbids rebuilding it. - **A verdict or a score, on anybody's policy including the customer's own.** The ABP describes and does not judge. A policy cannot be dangerous; a deployment can. The score lives on the risk product. See the opening of `03__THE-ABP-MODEL.md` and rule 0 in `05__THE-HARD-RULES.md`. - **Any capability claim about a named third party product** without a source, a timestamp and a hash. This is the site's largest exposure and `05__THE-HARD-RULES.md` covers it. ## The foundation document **Read `briefs/v0.33.70__foundation__agent-behaviour-policy-...md` before anything else in this pack.** It is the definition and introduction of the ABP, written for publication. **The home page is derived from it, the what is an ABP page is it, and the docs section carries it first.** It is also the document the project lead is putting in front of the community for feedback, so its wording is the wording, and where this pack and it disagree, it wins. ## Reading order | # | File | What it settles | |---|---|---| | 0 | `00__START-HERE.md` | This file. The name, the existing ontology, the boundaries | | 1 | `01__WHAT-TO-BUILD.md` | The site map, the docs section, the examples, the build order | | 2 | `02__THE-CONVENTIONS.md` | What to inherit from the guidance, and how to verify rather than assume | | 3 | `03__THE-ABP-MODEL.md` | The four objects, the graph rules, the five layers, the fact diff | | 4 | `04__THE-FIRST-EXAMPLES.md` | The seed data and the first five ABPs, derived rather than authored | | 5 | `05__THE-HARD-RULES.md` | Words, claims, licence and the third party naming problem | | 6 | `06__THE-PROMPT.md` | The prompt to start from | Then `briefs/`, which is the argument behind all of it. ## What this site is for It is the home for the argument, the model, the examples and the data. **Buying an ABP happens on the store, not here.** This site publishes the free public library. The store sells the instance. That boundary is the 26 August ruling and it is the reason this site has no checkout. --- This document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).