Version: Draft architecture note
Status: Conceptual / experimental — not production-ready
SenTient is an architectural direction and working specification, not a released production system. References to pipelines, components, latency targets, benchmarks, or output profiles describe intended design behavior, not current operational readiness.
SenTient is the proposed semantic resolution and transformation engine of the Koa ecosystem.
Its intended role is to bridge messy, ambiguous, multilingual, or semi-structured inputs with structured epistemic artifacts that can later be compiled, validated, federated, queried, and rendered.
SenTient does not decide universal truth.
SenTient is intended to help transform signals into structured candidates, preserve ambiguity when resolution is uncertain, and prepare material for Kristal-compatible epistemic compilation.
In the Kristal v5 model, SenTient may contribute to:
Claim-IR is not the universal required boundary in Kristal v5. It remains a useful extractor and resolver profile. The normative Kristal v5 input unit is the Structured Epistemic State.
SenTient is designed as a Hybrid Orchestration System.
It combines three technological lineages into a single funnel:
The goal is not to force every input into a single answer.
The goal is to produce structured, inspectable, traceable candidate states that preserve enough metadata for downstream validation, authority recognition, federation, and reader policy.
This page describes the intended architecture. It does not claim that the full system has been implemented, benchmarked, deployed, or validated.
SenTient is designed to sit before or beside Kristal compilation.
A typical intended v5 flow is:
Raw text / document / dataset / submission
-> SenTient extraction and resolution
-> candidate assertions
-> ambiguity-aware resolved state
-> Structured Epistemic State
-> Kristal compilation
-> Working Artifact
-> Validation Reports
-> Authority Recognition
-> Reference Artifact or Runtime Pack
-> Reader Policy