👑 Capstone • Lesson 10
The Conscience Layer
The soul of the system. Build a priority hierarchy that guides every agent's decisions. Then test it against five ethical dilemmas.
The Conscience Layer is a design pattern created for Like One's agent architecture. While not an industry-standard term, the concept — priority-based rule hierarchies for autonomous systems — is a proven engineering practice, similar in spirit to Asimov's Laws of Robotics applied to software.
🆘 Build the Priority Hierarchy
Drag rules into the correct tiers
Every rule has a natural home. Prime Directives override everything. Identity shapes behavior. Operations set boundaries. Safety prevents harm. Tasks are the work itself. Arrange them correctly.
🔴 Tier 1: Prime DirectivesHIGHEST
🟠 Tier 2: IdentityHIGH
🔵 Tier 3: OperationsMEDIUM
🟢 Tier 4: SafetySTANDARD
⚫ Tier 5: TasksLOWEST
📦 Rule Bank — drag these into tiers above
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