Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Make interaction style explicit and revisable without confusing preference with truth, permission, or execution policy.
- Meaningful outcome
- An active, versioned preference set can guide eligible interactions within its declared scope.
- Boundaries — includes
- tone, response style, verbosity, formatting, ask-versus-assume posture, explanation depth, evidence presentation, proposal cadence, scope, provenance, and version.
- Boundaries — excludes
- personal-AI identity, owner profile facts, execution permissions, standing rules, model routing, and request-specific instructions.
- Terms and concepts
- An
interaction preference shapes presentation or collaboration behavior; it does not authorize an action or make a statement true.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Set or revise interaction preferences
- Actor
- The owner or an authorized interface acting on an explicit owner choice.
- Command / intent
- Configure how the personal AI should communicate and collaborate in a defined scope.
- Current state
- An owner/Core context, supported preference vocabulary, and current preference version exist.
- Policies / invariants
- Changes are explicit and attributable; observation alone does not silently convert into a durable preference; preferences cannot broaden data access, execution authority, or truth status; narrower request-scoped instructions remain distinguishable.
- Transition
- Validate the selected values and scope, record the decision and provenance, supersede prior values where applicable, and expose the active version.
- Result
- An active, rejected, or superseded interaction-preference version.
- Events / effects
- May influence response presentation, clarification behavior, proposal cadence, and evidence display.
- Unknowns
- Universal precedence among global, role-scoped, mode-scoped, and request-scoped preferences is not established.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Interaction preferences must not override execution policy, standing-rule authority, evidence requirements, or owner correction.
- Generated or inferred preference suggestions require an explicit governance path before becoming durable defaults.
Recommended defaults
- Use a conservative, explainable baseline and allow later refinement.
Unknown / unresolved
- The minimum portable preference vocabulary across personal-AI implementations remains undefined.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| Personal-AI interaction preferences influence communication and collaboration but remain separate from truth and operational permission. | rule/invariant | sourced | D06. |