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TOPOLOGY — phronesis

Purpose

Phronesis is a provably safe language for agentic ethical reasoning, combining symbolic AI with neural adaptability. Built on Elixir/BEAM VM, it formalizes ethical reasoning in autonomous systems with formal logic, provable safety guarantees, and neuro-symbolic integration for value-aligned autonomous agents.

Module Map

phronesis/
├── lib/phronesis/       # Reference implementation (Elixir/BEAM): lexer, parser,
│                        #   type checker, interpreter, consensus, LSP, reflexion
├── compiler/            # Rust → WASM compiler (phronesis-ast, phronesis-wasm)
├── spec/                # Grammar (EBNF) + formal semantics
├── formal/              # TLA+ consensus specification
├── academic/            # Formal proofs (Lean4 / Agda / Coq)
├── conformance/         # Conformance test suites and validation
├── bench/               # Performance benchmarking
├── docs/                # AsciiDoc design docs (incl. REFLEXION.adoc)
└── .github/workflows/   # CI/CD (hypatia-scan, codeql, etc.)

Data Flow

[Ethical Spec] ──► [Parser] ──► [Type Checker] ──► [Symbolic Reasoner] ──► [BEAM Bytecode]
                                       ↓                     ↓
                            [Formal Proofs]      [Provable Safety Properties]

Key Components

  • Symbolic reasoning: Formalize ethical constraints as first-class language features

  • Neural adaptability: Integrate learned representations with symbolic logic

  • Provable safety: All autonomous decisions backed by formal proofs

  • BEAM target: Run on Erlang/Elixir production infrastructure