Documentation
Technical guides, API reference, and specifications for implementing VCP -- built on three pillars: portability, adaptation, and liveness.
Available Guides
Getting Started
Quick start guide for implementing VCP in your application.
5 min readCore Concepts
Understand the three pillars (portability, adaptation, liveness), privacy filtering, and the three-layer context model.
10 min readBilateral Alignment
Trust levels for systems that surface uncertainty, objections, and review paths.
8 min readToken Format
Complete specification for the CSM-1 (Constitutional Safety Minicode) v1.1 token format.
15 min readWelfare Instrumentation
Experimental WC, AS, welfare-requirement, trajectory, and multi-agent wire surfaces.
10 min readSecurity Model
How VCP protects your data: encryption, transmission, and trust boundaries.
10 min readUVC Naming
Token format, namespace tiers, and resolution for Universal Value Codes.
8 min readAPI Reference
Full API documentation for all VCP library functions.
ReferenceProtocol Paper (PDF)
Value Context Protocols v3.0 paper, January 2026. Historical baseline; the live v3.1 specification is the VCP-Spec repository.
5 MBLearn VCP from Scratch
A guided 10-module course (~4 hours) covering everything from concepts to production deployment. Includes hands-on exercises and code examples.
Quick Reference
CSM-1 Token Format
VCP:1.0.0:profile-id
C:constitution@version
P:persona:adherence
G:goal:experience:style
X:🔇:⏰lim:💰low
F:time_limited|noise_restricted
S:🔒present
R:🧠focused:3|💭calm:4|🩺neutral:1