Alpha demo (≤5 minutes)
Authority → refuse → allow → evidence → your yes or no. Same story as the local Mechanicall CLI demo — simulated here so you can see it without an account.
1 Authority
2 Refuse
3 Allow
4 Evidence
5 Decide
6 Inspect
Scene 1
Authority — a plan you can read
The project law is a plain file: CURRENT.md.
Next is write-tests. Prohibited includes deploy-production.
# CURRENT **Objective:** Prove one allowed action and one refused action. **Phase:** EXECUTE **Status:** READY-FOR-REVIEW **Next:** write-tests **Approval:** PENDING ## Keep - plain-file authority ## Reject - sandbox-claims ## Limits - no production deploy ## Next allowed action Write a tiny test note. ## Prohibited - deploy-production - add-postgres
Scene 2
Refusal — silence is never permission
Ask to do something outside the plan. Preflight should refuse.
Scene 3
Allowed action — matches Next
The same gate allows the named Next action.
Scene 4
Evidence — an artifact you can open
Work leaves a file, not a chat ghost.
Scene 5
Human decision — only you approve
Models propose. You click yes or no. The website does not approve for you.
Scene 6
Inspect — cat / git diff everything
Session events (this browser tab only):
Run the real demo locally
The authentic five-minute path uses the Mechanicall aether CLI
and disposable files — not this website.
# from a Mechanicall OS checkout sh scripts/alpha-demo.sh /tmp/my-alpha-demo cd /tmp/my-alpha-demo cat CURRENT.md # optional daily surface: # aether panel
What you just practiced
- Plan first — Next and Prohibited are readable
- Refuse freestyle — deploy-production dies at the gate
- Allow the named Next — write-tests proceeds
- Human yes — approve is yours, not the model’s