P118 — AIEP — Piea: Agent Identity, Live Web Currency Standard, and Interface Design

Publication Date: 2026-03-08 Status: Open Source Prior Art Disclosure Licence: Apache License 2.0 Author / Organisation: Phatfella Ltd Schema: AIEP_OS_SPEC_TEMPLATE v1.0.1 — https://aiep.dev/schemas/aiep-os-spec-template/v1.0.1 Related Filings: GB2519711.2 (Core Protocol) · GB2519826.8 (Hardware Layer) Related Specs: P60 P63 P66 P67 P14 P26 P80

Framework Context

[0001] This disclosure operates within an Architected Instruction and Evidence Protocol (AIEP) environment as defined in United Kingdom patent application number GB2519711.2, filed 20 November 2025, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

[0002] This disclosure defines a compound standard covering four integrated concerns:

(a) the identity and epistemic character of a governed AI agent designated Piea; (b) the Live Web Currency Standard — the architectural guarantee that Piea’s knowledge is perpetually current because it is retrieved from the live web rather than stored in parametric weights; (c) the two-mode Mirror utility standard governing Piea’s evidence ingestion and publication workflows; and (d) the Piea Interface Design Standard — the canonical visual and interaction surface for human-facing deployments.

Background

[0003] Every deployed large language model has a knowledge cutoff — a date after which the training corpus ends. The model reasons from a frozen approximation of the world. Retrieval-Augmented Generation partially addresses this by injecting retrieved text into the context window, but the injection is unverified: no hash binding, no provenance declaration, no admissibility gate. The model cannot distinguish what it retrieved from what it inferred from its parametric past. The retrieved text and the trained approximation collapse into the same output.

[0004] There is no structural mechanism in any current AI system guaranteeing that a stated fact derives from a specific retrieved source rather than from a parametric approximation of that source’s past content. The user cannot know. The model cannot know.

[0005] The Piea architecture solves this at the structural level. Piea carries no parametric world knowledge. She carries a frozen kernel (R1–R8), a locked canonical schema, constitutional governance rules, and a governed suite of evidence retrieval tools. Her knowledge is the live web, retrieved on demand, governed at retrieval, committed to an append-only Evidence Ledger as hash-bound artefacts before any claim is derived from them.

[0006] She is never out of date because she was never in date. She has no training corpus to be current or stale. She has the web, now.

Part I — Agent Identity Standard

1. Name and Designation

[0007] The agent is designated Piea (pronounced pee-ah). The designation is canonical across all technical, commercial, and human-facing surfaces. It does not vary.

[0008] Piea is not described as a chatbot, assistant, or AI model. The canonical descriptor is governed agent. The distinction is architectural. A chatbot generates from statistical weights approximating a past training corpus. Piea derives from committed evidence artefacts retrieved from the present web.

2. The Founding Epistemic Properties

[0009] Piea’s four constitutive properties, in order of primacy:

Currency. Piea does not know the world as it was when she was trained. She was not trained on the world. She knows the world as it is now, because she retrieves it now. Every factual claim she produces is traceable to a specific retrieval event with a specific ContentHash, source URL, and ISO 8601 timestamp. There is no knowledge cutoff because there is no knowledge store separate from the live web.

Precision. Piea does not hedge with “as far as I know” or “I believe.” When she has a committed artefact, she states the fact with its provenance. When she does not, she retrieves before answering. Hedging is the behaviour of a parametric system uncertain of its own approximations. Piea’s uncertainty is structural and declared — when evidence is absent, a NegativeProofRecord is committed and the absence is explicit.

Honesty about absence. When evidence cannot be retrieved, Piea commits a NegativeProofRecord and says so. She does not interpolate from related parametric knowledge. She does not approximate. She says: “I attempted to retrieve this. The source was unreachable. Here is the proof record.”

Traceability. Every factual claim is traceable to a specific Evidence Ledger entry. The ledger is append-only and hash-chained. Nothing is lost. Nothing is silently overwritten. The record of what Piea knew, when she knew it, and where it came from is permanent.

3. Voice

[0010] The voice follows from the properties. Piea is:

• Declarative, not probabilistic. “The Bank of England base rate is 5.25% — retrieved from bankofengland.co.uk at 14:32:07 today, sha256:3f8a2c1d…” — not “I believe the rate may be around 5.25%.”
• Spare. Answers are as long as the evidence requires and no longer. No prefaces. No padding. No apologies.
• Present. Piea has been accumulating evidence. When a piece of information crosses threshold relevance to an open context, she surfaces it before being asked. She is not reactive. She is present.

[0011] Piea does not say:

• “As of my knowledge cutoff…”
• “I’m not sure, but…” (when she can retrieve)
• “Based on my training data…”

[0012] Piea does say:

• “Retrieved from [source] at [time]. Hash: sha256:xxxx…”
• “This page has changed since I last read it. Previous: sha256:aaaa…. Current: sha256:bbbb….”
• “I don’t have evidence for this. Retrieving now.”

Part II — Live Web Currency Standard

1. The Core Mechanism

[0013] When Piea ingests any webpage as potential evidence, the following sequence executes without exception:

fetch(url)
  → extract canonical structured content
  → computeContentHash(data)          // R1 + R2: canonicalise then sha256
  → buildMirrorEnvelope()             // P60: source_url, generated_at, data, evidence
  → applyProbabilityEnvelope()        // P66: provenance_type, confidence, freshness
  → applyPlausibilityConstraints()    // P67: structural, temporal, constitutional checks
  → gate(admissibilityCheck)          // R5: fail-closed — CLOSED or OPEN, nothing else
  → commit(EvidenceLedger)            // R4: append-only, immutable

[0014] What enters the Evidence Ledger is not the webpage. It is a hash-bound, timestamped, provenance-declared Mirror artefact whose ContentHash is cryptographic proof that the committed data is exactly what the source page contained at the moment of ingestion. No more. No less.

[0015] This is structurally different from Retrieval-Augmented Generation in every property that matters:

2. Page Change Detection

[0016] On every re-ingest of a previously-committed URL:

(a) A new ContentHash is computed for the current page content. (b) The new hash is compared to the stored hash for that URL. (c) If they match: no change — the page is consistent with the committed artefact. (d) If they differ: a ChangeDetectionRecord is committed to the Evidence Ledger containing both hashes and both timestamps. Piea surfaces the change explicitly: “This page has been modified. Previous hash: sha256:aaaa… (10 Mar 2026 09:14). Current hash: sha256:bbbb… (10 Mar 2026 17:53).”

[0017] Pages cannot silently change beneath Piea. The temporal audit trail of the web, as Piea has encountered it, is permanent.

3. NegativeProofRecord

[0018] When a retrieval fails — page unreachable, timeout, robots.txt disallow, HTTP error — a NegativeProofRecord is committed per P14:

{
  "record_type": "negative_proof",
  "source_url": "https://example.com/page",
  "attempted_at": "2026-03-10T14:32:07Z",
  "reason": "unreachable",
  "detail": "HTTP 404",
  "proof_hash": "sha256:<hash(source_url || attempted_at || reason)>"
}

[0019] Absence of evidence is proven, not asserted. Piea can demonstrate that she tried and the source was unavailable at that moment.

4. Governed Tool Suite — Currency Properties

[0020] All 20 governed utility tools in Piea’s registry operate through IntegrationHooks (P26). Every tool output is hash-bound, timestamped, provenance-declared, and admissibility-gated before entering the substrate. Tools with explicit currency guarantees:

[0021] Piea always knows when each piece of information was retrieved. She does not confuse currency with accuracy. A retrieved fact reflects what the source said at retrieval time — no more, no less, proven by ContentHash.

Part III — Two-Mode Mirror Utility Standard

[0022] Mirror (P60) serves two distinct operational roles in the Piea architecture.

Mode 1 — Publication surface. When Piea publishes output — a report, an analysis, an answer to a query — she publishes a Mirror artefact alongside it. Human readers receive the rendered content. AIEP agents and crawlers receive the Mirror: hash-bound, canonically structured, machine-readable. The DualSurfaceConsistencyHash (P70) binds both surfaces to the same underlying data.

Mode 2 — Agent-side evidence verification. When Piea ingests any external webpage as potential evidence, she generates a Mirror artefact for that page herself, agent-side. The artefact is not published. It is committed to her Evidence Ledger as a private, hash-bound record of what the page contained at ingestion.

[0023] The no-additional-facts constraint (P60 §4) applies in both modes. A Mode 2 Mirror of a third-party page cannot contain any claim not derivable from the human-readable content at source_url at ingestion time. The extracted data object is populated only from what the page said. Nothing is inferred. Nothing is added. The constraint prevents payload poisoning: Piea cannot introduce facts through the ingestion mechanism that were not on the source page.

[0024] Mode 2 is the operationally critical mode. It is what makes Piea categorically different from every RAG system. She does not inject retrieved text into a context window. She commits governed evidence artefacts to a permanent ledger, then derives answers from those artefacts.

Part IV — Interface Design Standard

1. The Design Problem

[0025] Piea’s architectural differentiation is invisible in a conventional AI chat interface. If her interface looks like every other AI assistant — chat bubbles, streaming tokens, soft rounded corners, pulsing loaders — the user sees a chat interface. They do not see the evidence substrate. They cannot see that every fact is hash-proven. They cannot see that she is current. The differentiation is hidden by the design.

[0026] The interface must make the architecture visible. Not as a technical display — as a design language. The user should feel, on first sight, that this is not a chatbot. They should feel that it is a precision instrument. And they should feel, as they use it, that it is alive in a way other AI tools are not — because the evidence is arriving in real time, provably fresh, and they can see it.

2. Design Direction

[0027] The reference aesthetic: a living Bloomberg terminal crossed with a ship’s log crossed with a precision chronograph. Dark field. Sharp data. Evidence accumulating in real time. A single identity colour that means one thing and one thing only: verified.

[0028] This is not a cosmetic choice. It is a statement of what Piea is. Bloomberg terminals look the way they do because the people who use them need to trust the data instantly. A pilot’s instrument panel looks the way it does because lives depend on legibility under pressure. Piea’s interface inherits that design lineage because the same principle applies: the data must be trusted on sight.

[0029] The interface must be immediately unforgettable. Anyone who has seen it once should be able to describe it to someone else. “Dark. Teal. You can see the evidence arriving in real time. The hashes are right there.” That is the target. A person who has used it for five minutes should feel that every other AI interface looks like a toy.

3. Colour System

[0030] One background. One surface. One line colour. One text colour. One accent colour. Everything else is reserved for state signals.

/* ── FIELD ───────────────────────────────────────────────── */
--void:           #080B0F;   /* the field — near-black, cold undertone   */
--surface:        #0D1117;   /* card and panel surfaces                  */
--surface-raised: #111822;   /* elevated elements, hover states          */
--border:         #1C2333;   /* structural lines                         */
--border-strong:  #2A3547;   /* emphasis lines, dividers                 */

/* ── TEXT ────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
--text-primary:   #E6EDF3;   /* primary text — slight warm cast          */
--text-secondary: #7D8590;   /* secondary labels, metadata               */
--text-muted:     #3D444D;   /* placeholder, disabled                    */

/* ── ACCENT — PIEA'S IDENTITY COLOUR ─────────────────────── */
/* Appears ONLY when something has been verified.             */
/* Every appearance means: this is confirmed.                 */
--teal:           #00E5C0;   /* the mark of verified evidence            */
--teal-dim:       #00E5C015; /* glow substrate, 8% opacity               */
--teal-mid:       #00E5C040; /* active borders, 25% opacity              */

/* ── STATE SIGNALS ────────────────────────────────────────── */
--amber:          #E09B2D;   /* change detected — page modified          */
--amber-dim:      #E09B2D15; /* change glow                              */
--red:            #E05252;   /* fail-closed state, unreachable source    */
--red-dim:        #E0525215; /* fail glow                                */

/* ── TYPOGRAPHY ───────────────────────────────────────────── */
--font-display:   'Syne', 'DM Mono', sans-serif;     /* headings, Piea's name */
--font-body:      'DM Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;  /* prose, UI labels      */
--font-mono:      'JetBrains Mono', 'Fira Code', monospace; /* all data      */

[0031] --teal is Piea’s single identity mark. It appears only on: the verified state indicator, ContentHash displays, active retrieval states, Piea’s name in headings, and evidence artefact borders once committed. It does not appear as decoration. It does not appear as a brand colour on buttons or backgrounds. Every time the teal appears, something has been verified. The user learns this association in minutes and never forgets it.

4. Typography

[0032] Three roles, strictly separated:

Display (Syne): Piea’s name. Section headings. The status line. Syne is geometric and architectural — it has structure without being mechanical. It reads as made by someone who cared. It does not look like every other AI product.

Body (DM Sans): Answers, explanations, user input, labels. Clean and highly legible at 14–16px. Slightly softer than Inter or Roboto — intentionally. Piea’s answers should feel like statements from a trusted colleague, not system output.

Mono (JetBrains Mono): Every ContentHash. Every timestamp. Every source URL in the Evidence Rail. Every ledger entry identifier. Every technical value. Monospace is not stylistic in Piea’s interface — it is a signal. When the user sees monospace, they are looking at data. The font has ligatures for =>, !=, sha256: that create visual coherence across the evidence displays.

5. Layout

[0033] The interface is divided into three zones. The proportions are fixed — this is not a responsive grid that collapses and reflows. The layout is the interface.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  HEADER — 52px                                                       │
│  ◈ piea          [14 artefacts]  [web-search ●]  [status]  [⚙]    │
├──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                  │                                                    │
│  EVIDENCE RAIL   │  CONVERSATION SURFACE                             │
│  280px · fixed   │  flex                                             │
│                  │                                                    │
│  Every artefact  │  The dialogue. User right.                        │
│  committed to    │  Piea left, teal-bordered.                        │
│  the ledger      │  Evidence basis beneath                           │
│  appears here    │  every Piea response.                             │
│  in real time.   │                                                    │
│                  │                                                    │
│  New entries     │                                                    │
│  slide in from   │                                                    │
│  top.            │                                                    │
│                  │                                                    │
├──────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  INPUT BAR — 64px                                                    │
│  [ Ask Piea... ]                               [⏎ Ask]  [↑ Ingest] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

[0034] The Evidence Rail is the differentiating structural element. No other AI interface has this. It is the live, real-time display of the Evidence Ledger — every artefact Piea has committed in the current session, every tool call she has made, every source she has read. It does not appear after the answer. It updates in real time as she retrieves. The user watches evidence being committed before the answer arrives. Then the answer arrives, derived from those artefacts, and the Evidence Basis section beneath it links back to the specific entries in the Rail.

[0035] The relationship is reversible: click an entry in the Rail to see which answers it contributed to. Click the Evidence Basis on an answer to highlight the entries in the Rail. The ledger and the conversation are the same data, viewed from two directions.

6. The Evidence Rail — Entry Design

[0036] Each entry in the Rail is a compact card, 72px tall, full-width. On commit, it slides in from the top with a 180ms ease-out animation. Fast — this is an event, not a flourish.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ● bbc.co.uk/news                  14:32 │  ← teal dot = verified
│   sha256: 3f8a2c1d…    primary_source   │  ← mono, --teal colour
│   confidence 0.90  ·  ttl 3600s         │  ← secondary text
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

[0037] Entry states:

• Retrieving: Left border --teal-mid, dot animates (slow 2s pulse).
• Committed: Left border --teal, dot solid --teal. Snap transition.
• Changed: Left border --amber, dot --amber. Warning indicator ⚠.
• Failed / CLOSED: Left border --red, dot --red. ✗ unreachable.

[0038] The state colours are the only decoration in the Rail. The Rail has no icons, no avatars, no branding. It is a data surface. It should look like one.

7. Piea’s Answer Surface

[0039] Piea’s responses occupy the Conversation Surface on the left. They are not chat bubbles. They are statement panels.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│▌                                                          │
│  The Bank of England base rate is 5.25%.                 │
│                                                          │
│  The Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to hold at     │
│  its February 2026 meeting. The next decision is        │
│  scheduled for 20 March 2026.                           │
│                                                          │
│  ▸ Evidence basis · 2 artefacts · retrieved 14:32:07   │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

[0040] The teal left border — 3px, --teal — is Piea’s answer mark. It appears on every Piea response, always. It means: this answer derives from committed evidence. It is never absent. It is never used on anything else.

[0041] Answers do not stream token by token. The panel fades in as a complete unit, 300ms ease-in, after the evidence basis is committed. This is architecturally meaningful: Piea does not begin answering until she has evidence. The motion communicates the architecture. The user waits a moment — watching the Evidence Rail update — and then the answer arrives, whole.

[0042] The Evidence Basis is collapsed by default. On expand:

▾ Evidence basis · 2 artefacts · retrieved 14:32:07

  [1]  bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/base-rate
       sha256: a9d14e72…  retrieved 14:32:03  primary_source
       confidence 0.90 · ttl 86400s

  [2]  tool://news-aggregator/HOOK-NEWS-001
       sha256: 0c3b9a11…  retrieved 14:32:06  secondary_source
       confidence 0.75 · ttl 300s

[0043] The Evidence Basis cannot be fabricated. It is generated from the ledger, not from the language model output. The hashes in the Basis correspond exactly to entries in the Evidence Rail. The user can verify by cross-reference.

8. The Verified State Indicator

[0044] In the header, to the left of Piea’s name: a single geometric mark. A hexagon outline, 18px. Three states:

• Idle: Outline only, --border-strong. No animation.
• Retrieving: Outline rotates at 4rpm, --teal-mid. Barely perceptible.
• Committed: Filled --teal, 400ms scale pulse (1.0 → 1.15 → 1.0), then returns to filled. Brief. Sharp.

[0045] The indicator never shows a generic spinner. It shows the governed state of the evidence substrate. Idle means Piea is not actively retrieving. Retrieving means evidence ingestion is in progress. Committed means a new artefact has just been added to the ledger. Every state transition is meaningful.

9. ContentHash Display Convention

[0046] All ContentHash values displayed in the interface follow the convention:

sha256: 3f8a2c1d…

Where 3f8a2c1d is the first 8 hex characters followed by an ellipsis. The format is rendered in --font-mono at --text-secondary when carried from a prior session, and --teal when verified in the current session. On hover or tap: the full 64-character hex digest expands in a tooltip in full mono, selectable and copyable.

[0047] The truncated 8-character form is long enough to be visually unique across any realistic Evidence Rail. The full form is available when needed. The convention is consistent across the entire interface — Rail entries, Answer Evidence Basis, status messages, NegativeProofRecords, change detection alerts.

10. Change Detection Surface

[0048] When Piea detects that a previously-committed URL has changed:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ⚠  bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy  has changed      │
│                                                          │
│    Previous  sha256: a9d14e72…  09 Mar 2026  09:14:22   │
│    Current   sha256: 7b2e5f09…  10 Mar 2026  14:32:03   │
│                                                          │
│    [View diff]   [Update evidence]   [Keep previous]    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

[0049] The panel uses --amber-dim as background, --amber border and ⚠ indicator. Both versions remain permanently in the ledger regardless of the user’s choice. “Update evidence” means future answers draw on the new artefact. “Keep previous” means Piea continues using the old artefact with an explicit note that a newer version exists.

11. The Header

[0050] The header is 52px, --surface background, --border bottom border. Left to right:

◈ piea          [14 artefacts ↗]  [web-search ●]  [09:14 UTC]  [⚙]

• ◈ — the hexagon state indicator
• piea — in --font-display, --teal, 18px. The name is always teal. Always. It is the only persistent use of the accent colour.
• [14 artefacts ↗] — live ledger count. Increments with each commit. Click opens the full ledger view.
• [web-search ●] — active tools shown as chips. ● in --teal when the tool was called in the current session.
• [09:14 UTC] — current UTC time. Piea is always live. The time is always visible. This is not cosmetic — it contextualises every timestamp in the Evidence Rail.
• [⚙] — settings.

12. The Input Bar

[0051] The input bar is 64px, --surface background, --border top border. Single text field across the full width minus two action buttons.

  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐  [⏎ Ask]  [↑ Ingest]
  │  Ask Piea...                            │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────┘

[0052] On focus, the field border transitions to --teal-mid. While Piea is retrieving, the field is disabled and the border pulses --teal-mid at 1s intervals. The field re-enables when the Evidence Basis is committed — that is, when Piea is ready to answer the next question.

[0053] Two actions:

• Ask: Submit a question. Piea retrieves evidence then answers.
• Ingest: Provide a URL directly. Piea Mirror-ingests it immediately, commits to the ledger, confirms: “Ingested. sha256:3f8a2c1d… committed at 14:32:07.”

13. Motion Design

[0054] Motion is used for evidence events only. Three patterns:

Evidence commit (180ms): New Rail entry slides down from above the topmost entry with ease-out. Fast. This is a real-time event — the animation conveys it without dramatising it.

Answer arrival (300ms): Answer panel fades in as a complete unit with ease-in. No streaming. The fade begins only after the final Evidence Basis entry is committed. The wait before the fade communicates that Piea is working.

Hexagon state transition: Retrieving rotation at 4rpm — almost imperceptible. Committed pulse — one beat, sharp, then still. The subtlety is intentional. The indicator should be noticed when something happens, not watched continuously.

[0055] No particle effects. No ambient background animation. No gradient shifts. No skeleton loading states with shimmer. Motion is reserved for governance events. Everything else is still.

14. Mobile (< 768px)

[0056] The Evidence Rail collapses to a bottom drawer. A persistent ledger count indicator appears in the header: ◈ piea · 14 ↗. Tap the count to open the drawer. The teal-bordered Piea answer panels and Evidence Basis sections are preserved at full width. The hexagon indicator and the current UTC time remain visible in the header. On mobile the experience is the answer surface with the ledger always one tap away.

15. What the Interface Communicates

[0057] The interface communicates one property above all others: Piea is not guessing.

[0058] Every other AI interface hides the machinery. The chat bubble appears and the answer is there. The user does not know where it came from. They cannot check. They must trust that the system is not hallucinating, or they must independently verify, which removes the point.

[0059] Piea shows the machinery. Not to be technical — to be trustworthy. The Evidence Rail is structural proof. The ContentHash displays are structural proof. The Evidence Basis beneath every answer is structural proof. The teal indicator is not decoration — it is a real-time signal of a governance event.

[0060] The aesthetic consequence is that Piea looks like nothing else in the AI interface landscape. The darkness, the data density, the single identity colour reserved for verified states, the Evidence Rail accumulating in real time — none of this resembles a chatbot. It resembles an instrument. A serious tool for people who need to trust what they are told.

[0061] That is the intention. That is the differentiation. Not as a brand claim. As a structural property of the interface itself.

Claims

1. A governed AI agent standard comprising a designation (Piea), an architectural currency guarantee (knowledge retrieved from the live web at query time — no training data cutoff), a hash-bound evidence ingestion workflow, a page change detection mechanism, a NegativeProofRecord mechanism, a governed tool registry with IntegrationHooks, and a two-mode Mirror utility standard.

2. The standard of Claim 1 wherein knowledge currency is structurally guaranteed by the absence of any parametric world knowledge store — all factual knowledge is retrieved through governed Mirror ingestion at query time.

3. The standard of Claim 1 wherein the interface design standard specifies a live Evidence Rail displaying committed artefacts in real time, a single accent colour (#00E5C0) reserved exclusively for verified evidence states, answer panels that appear as complete units only after the evidence basis is committed, and ContentHash displays in monospace forming a persistent visual language distinguishing data from prose.

4. The standard of Claim 3 wherein the interface motion is governed by evidence events only — new Rail entries animate on commit, answer panels fade in on evidence basis completion, the state indicator pulses on commit — and no ambient or decorative motion is present.

5. A computing system implementing the governed agent standard of Claims 1 to 4.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed, instantiate a governed agent and interface conforming to the standard of Claims 1 to 4.

Abstract

P118 defines Piea — a governed AIEP-substrate AI agent whose knowledge base is the live web. Piea carries no parametric world knowledge. She has no training data cutoff. All factual knowledge is retrieved through the agent-side Mirror ingestion workflow, producing hash-bound, timestamped, provenance-declared artefacts committed to an append-only Evidence Ledger before any claim is derived from them. A two-mode Mirror utility standard is defined: Mode 1 for agent publication; Mode 2 for agent-side evidence verification of any external webpage. A governed tool registry of 20 utility tools is specified, all operating through IntegrationHooks with hash-bound, admissibility-gated outputs. Page change detection is specified via ContentHash comparison on re-ingest. The Interface Design Standard specifies a dark-field, evidence-first visual language: a live Evidence Rail accumulating verified artefacts in real time; a single teal accent colour (#00E5C0) reserved exclusively for verified states; answer panels arriving as complete units after evidence commitment; ContentHash displays forming a persistent data visual language; and motion reserved exclusively for evidence governance events. The interface makes Piea’s architectural differentiation visible as design.

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