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Commitments, made legible.
pact is the accountability platform for shared multimodal goals and aspirations. It turns “we said we’d ship that” into a trackable commitment — with an owner, a cadence, a definition of done, and a shared surface every team and every agent on the estate can read.
What it does
- Shared goals, one source of truth. Goals and aspirations live in one place — not scattered across docs, DMs, and tickets. Each pact records the commitment, the owner, the contributing team or agent, and the success criterion, in a shared multimodal format (text, links, artifacts, evidence).
- Progress on a cadence. Every pact has a check-in cadence. Progress is captured as structured updates against the goal, not free-text status pings — so “are we on track” is a query, not a meeting.
- Accountability, surfaced. Owners are named, deadlines are dated, and slip is visible. pact does not soften accountability — it makes the commitment legible to the people who made it and the people counting on it.
- Multimodal evidence. A pact’s progress can attach commits, tickets, screenshots, and agent artifacts — the same multimodal evidence the estate already produces — so “done” is backed by artifacts, not a checkbox.
- reverie-aware. Pacts and their progress are mirrored into reverie as observations, so an agent working toward a shared goal retrieves the active commitment and its latest state as part of its context — not as a separate lookups.
Architecture
| Component | Role |
|---|---|
| pact store | The canonical record of commitments — goal, owner, contributors, cadence, definition of done, and current state. Append-mostly; updates are structured progress events, not in-place rewrites. |
| check-in engine | Drives the per-pact cadence — prompts owners for progress, accepts structured updates, and flags pacts that are slipping or stale. |
| evidence layer | Attaches multimodal artifacts (commits, tickets, links, agent outputs) to progress events so “done” is auditable, not asserted. |
| accountability surface | The read view human operators and supervising agents consume — who owns what, what’s on track, what’s slipped, what’s overdue. |
| reverie mirror | Mirrors active pacts and progress events into reverie as observations, so agents retrieve the live commitment state as part of working context. |
Status
in development
Repo: github.com/cerebral-work/pact · License: Proprietary.
pact is in early development — the pact store and check-in cadence are the foundation; the multimodal evidence layer and the reverie mirror are being wired against the estate’s existing artifact producers. It is designed to compose with reverie and the agent workforce rather than stand alone.